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TIL Cool Whip contains the emulsifier Polysorbate 60, a major ingredient in many sexual lubricants

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Brymr TIL that Elizabeth I spent her reigning summers travelling with an entire royal entourage of 400-600 horse drawn carts. They travelled slowly, an average of 10-12 miles a day. Her visits to houses incurred significant expenses for the host, thus they weren’t always happy to have her stay.
4XAva TIL that 1972 democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton was forced to drop out of the race after he was humiliated by the "revelation" that he had been treated for chronic depression.
6J5l TIL in 1983, a struggling Atari dumped tons of unsold, unsalable inventory into a pit in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was considered an urban legend until 30 years later, when they were unearthed by an excavation crew. The haul included E.T., Atari catalogs, and Raiders of the Lost Ark promotionals.
xjD7 TIL : In 2012, Israel ranked as the 2nd most educated country in the world (Canada was 1st).
E1AV TIL that Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector in order to find an assassin’s bullet in President James Garfield’s body, but was unsuccessful because the president was lying on a steel spring bed.