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TIL Graham crackers were originally invented to prevent masturbation

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BdRK TIL the first McDonald drive-thru was opened near a military base to serve soldiers who weren’t permitted to get out of their cars while wearing fatigues.
gMEaX TIL Researchers found that women who were interested in a fling liked the scruffy look, showing a high preference for men with light and heavy stubble and little interest in the clean-shaved baby-faced look. But for women searching for someone to settle down with, the longer the beard the better
WEP4 TIL that not even a doctor can tell the difference between the lungs of a smoker vs. a non-smoker just by looking at them. Smoking cigarettes does not turn your lungs black
XgDr TIL in the film ‘Bruce Almighty’ God’s phone number is 776-2323, which is unassigned in Buffalo. The number is real in other area codes though, and these people were inundated with callers asking for “God”. One of the numbers belonged to a church.
QJE6p TIL Xerxes the Great ordered the Hellespont strait be whipped 300 times after a bridge being constructed over the strait collapsed during a storm. The second attempt to build the bridge was successful.