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TIL: Betty White holds the record for "longest television career of any female or male entertainer."

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x5Zb TIL the composition of both marijuana and tobacco smoke is nearly identical - “Toxic substances, such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and nitrosamines occur in similar concentrations in tobacco and marijuana smoke; so do the amounts of particulate material known collectively as ‘tars’.”
NXBdE TIL about Coon Chicken Inn, a restaurant chain that operated from 1925 till 1957. The restaurant's logo was a caricature of an African-American porter and it specialized in fried chicken.
DNXP TIL it has been scientifically proven that the less you know, the more you think you know
WaBN TIL that when a Russian jet crashed into a river, a captain of a 1898-built steam tugboat tied a rope around the cockpit window and towed the jet to shore with all passengers still inside.
KYL44 TIL about baby cages. The first commercial patent for a baby cage was filed in 1922 by Emma Read of Spokane, Washington.