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TIL the U.S. pays subsidies to farmers who grow tobacco

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M7Kpm TIL that Jonathan Yong Kim, aged 40, is an American U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, former SEAL, naval aviator, physician, and NASA astronaut.
nM7 TIL there are pads you can wear to make your farts not stink.
7rlnp TIL that 177 years after his death, George Washington was promoted to General of the Armies, the highest possible rank in the U.S. Army
B5RD TIL The popular anti-nausea drug Zofran has nausea listed as a possible side effect
p8XDQ TIL during the French Restoration, Colonel Barbier-Dufai and Captain Raoul de Vere dueled over an insult to the latter's cockade. After de Vere was disarmed four times they decided to tie their left arms together and stab each other to death with daggers in the back of a carriage. De Vere lost again