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TIL that candy cigarettes are fully illegal in 12 countries.

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78pRx TIL about the man who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in football padding to impress his wife. She watched him die on impact and told the press, “it was the last thing he did, and it was a failure.”
9vom TIL that the discoverer of penicillin also warned us early on about the possibility of antibiotic resistant bacteria due to misuse of antibiotics.
x61d0 TIL: Barbers get hair splinters in their fingers when cutting coarse hair and it's called "barber's disease."
V4dQ TIL a 2001 study found up to 70% of female high school students in Tokyo had been groped while riding the train
NvDN TIL that in the New Deal, FDR called for a new tax program called the Revenue Act of 1935, which imposed an income tax of 79% on incomes over $5 million. This tax rate affected literally one person: John D. Rockefeller.