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TIL That the inventor of petroleum jelly ate a spoonful every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. He lived to be 96.

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1l04 TIL Hitler requested the Shah of Iran to destroy roads and bridges so supplies wouldn’t be sent to Russia in the north, and that Hitler would rebuild these after the war once he won. The Shah refused.
PJMZ TIL despite Freddie Mercury’s multiple-octave range, he claimed to have no formal vocal training.
eplGL TIL in 1452/1453 a mystery eruption took place that expelled more than six times as much matter as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Its location remains unidentified
LBk0 TIL the movie “Fury” is the first movie since ‘46 that used an original German Tiger I tank. They also used ten original Sherman tanks. Even though it is fiction it is regarded as one of the most realistic WWII movies.
KYN8J TIL Anne V. Coates, Academy winning editor of Lawrence of Arabia, edited 50 Shades of Grey when she was 89