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TIL the “soap” in soap operas comes from household cleaning companies sponsoring shows and controlling the ads that were shown

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D1YLe TIL Every nation in the world allows its citizens to divorce under some conditions except for the Philippines and Vatican City
rNar4 TIL: Tonsil Stones Can Form When Food, Bacteria, and Other Debris Get Stuck in Your Tonsils. (And They Look Like Teeth!)
XELw6 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
aw5KJ TIL Until the early 60's it was earnestly believed that there were active volcanoes on the moon.
MeQMV TIL that after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the prime minister of Portugal sent a query to parishes around the country in order to objectively understand what happened. He is now regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.