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TIL Hummingbirds snore…adorably.

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8aJKZ TIL From the 1950s until the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell life insurance policies covering death, in the event that the buyer's flight crashed
d6l8 TIL Marge Simpson from the Simpsons has such huge hair as Matt Groening originally wanted her to be an anthropomorphic bunny, concealing rabbit ears under her hair
gMlGW TIL that a group of striking coal workers in West Virginia had leftover WWI chemical bombs dropped on them by the US government during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in American history.
Eddw TIL: A Nazi officer who saved many Poles and Jews during WWII was sent to a Soviet labour camp after the war- despite petition- until he died from the torture
Ao4g TIL that the song “Mah Na Mah Na”, which was popularized in part by the Muppets, originally debuted in an Italian pseudo-documentary about sexual activity in Sweden and was titled “Hooray for the Swedish Sauna”.