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TIL that a french company is making a perfume with a scent based on dead loved one for people that are grieving

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6Wgw TIL: the word “thug” is derived from the Cult of Thuggee in India, who were hired assassins who killed 2,000,000 people and were only stopped when the British arrived with modern crime detection methods in the 1830’s
9wJ7p TIL “Extra Extra! Read all about it!” Was used by Newsies to sell special edition newspapers called “extras”, not actual excess newspapers.
VMLGB TIL every Apple product in every promotional photo is set to 9:41 a.m. This is because when Jobs introduced the original iPhone at MacWorld 2007, he wanted the first image of the phone to show the actual time on the audience's watches. He did a practice run in 41 minutes, so the time was set to 9:41
jNAVQ TIL: A member of the Canadian Armed Forces holds the record for the longest confirmed kill shot at a distance of 3,540 meters or just over 2 miles.
4XZgN TIL the first African American senator assumed office in 1897 was Blanche Bruce