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TIL Gerard Way wrote My Chemical Romance's "Helena" about Joe Rogan's grandmother

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5V5Pp TIL despite being banned or severely regulated in many Western countries, Candy Cigarettes are legal and unregulated in 49 of 50 US States - Tennessee being the sole exception.
N7oJN TIL of the oldest known strike. On this date in 1152 BCE, the artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina walked off their jobs because they had not been paid. The Egyptian authorities raised the wages.
E1JPP TIL not many people know about the largest bomb ever detonated. About 15x stronger than the nukes used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'd like to introduce you all to the Tsar Bomba. King of bombs.
J1ppB TIL that a computer programmer became a romance author. After developing SuperBASIC for the Sinclair QL computer, Jan Jones began writing fiction; her first book, 'Stage By Stage' (2005), won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award.
awB6y TIL the last time a living Democratic president transferred the presidency to another Democrat was on March 4, 1857.