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TIL Mad Magazine exposed American Brands, a major cigarette manufacturer, that also owned Franklin Life Insurance claim cigarettes are harmless while charging more to insure smokers. (1988)

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b6LaN TIL Greenland is portrayed about 14x larger than its actual size on most maps
rNYOy TiL that Vermont declared war on Germany months before the United States.
JQ8j TIL that the KKK adopted a road in Missouri. In response, the state legislature renamed it after Rosa Parks
9wA9B TIL that trees existed for tens of millions of years before other organisms developed enzymes to digest them. Dead trees just laid on the ground and didn’t rot.
O4Vg TIL that for hundreds of years, “Computer” was a job title for a person who did math problems all day.