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KOjMR TIL that Oprah dated movie critic Roger Ebert
E5Nd TIL that mustard gas led to chemotherapy. During a World War II air raid, German pilots hit an American ship which had a secret stockpile of mustard gas. Doctors noticed that the gas suppressed cell division, which could fight cancer.
XKv6 TIL: Inspired by a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, an Oregon man in 2003 grafted a tomato plant onto tobacco plant roots creating real-life “Tomacco.”
aNX9 TIL that the city of Huescar forgot they were at war with Denmark until a local historian found the declaration 172 years later. No shots were fired during the war.
4X0vo TIL Anus is a populated place in Burgundy, France, within the commune of Fouronnes