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TIL skin care products have virtually no effect on skin elasticity, since the protein elastin cannot penetrate the skin layer.

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1por TIL The version of Anne Frank’s diary we read in school is edited. The unedited version includes complaints about her father and her thoughts on exploring her own body (NSFW)
LLZ0 TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once vice President of the United States, died at age 79. of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”
Z8v1R TIL that the shamisen, a Japanese stringed instrument, was traditionally made of dog or cat skin
9pQB TIL that in the 1920’s, the Ford Motor Company produced so much factory wood waste that they manufactured it into charcoal and sold it under the name Ford Charcoal. The company was later renamed to Kingsford Charcoal.
R7Q6 TIL a episode of the children’s show Postcards from Buster titled Sugar Time was banned by some (but not all) affiliates because of children with gay parents appearing. This caused the loss of government funding and eventually cancellation of the series.