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TIL that Shampoo was first discovered in India

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mxnaO TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.
gMjwD TIL in 1857 Senator James Hammond, representative of South Carolina, released a manual of breastfeeding rules for enslaved women. The manual regulated time spent breastfeeding and rigidly set weaning schedules. The women were forced to nurse the children of their owners as well as other babies.
awLgA TIL - that putting sugar in a gas tank does not ruin the engine, and is no worse than getting sand in the tank.
lOp5 TIL That by following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour — by putting a frog in the bucket of milk — scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
jlrQ TIL: Decimate is one of the most misused words today. It means to remove 1/10th, but is usually used in place of words like obliterate or annihilate.