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TIL Carrie Fisher was a script doctor (uncredited writer brought in to fix a movie) on Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3, The Wedding Singer, and all 3 of the Star Wars prequels

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LkBP TIL that Americans have the highest cancer survival rates in the world.
Ojd1 TIL that the early owners of Listerine created the word ‘Halitosis’ in order to create a new disorder in which Listerine was the cure
DQXnj TIL the Scythian Philosopher Anacharsis said some 2,500 years ago: "Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones"
5j6P TIL of Dock Ellis, a professional pitcher who threw a no-hitter while high on LSD
4kMVw TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was so intense that it obliterated most of the island and its surrounding archipelago. The explosion was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT, and the ash cloud lowered global temperatures, leading to a "volcanic winter".