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TIL: Fels-Naptha soap no longer contains naptha

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OP16 TIL because of his personal wealth from his acting career, Schwarzenegger did not accept his governor’s salary of $175,000 per year.
QeQL TIL in 2005 a Baltimore man was arrested and handcuffed to a pole for 3 hours for paying a $114 fee with 57 $2 bills. The Secret Service was called to make sure it wasn’t counterfeit money - which it indeed was not.
x69xk TIL that despite over 30 witnesses to the 1955 murder of Lamar Smith, veteran and Civil Rights activist, in broad daylight outside the courthouse of Brookhaven, Mississippi, no witness - who included the local sheriff - would testify in the case, and so the crime went unpunished
grM8L TIL Ice Is Classified As A Mineral
N7Za6 TIL bone marrow transplants can cause "chimerism," which is the recipient's entire DNA changing into the DNA of the bone marrow donor.