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TIL that drinking black tea can prevent lung damage from smoking

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a8WPZ TIL that sibling actors John and Joan Cusack have appeared in 10 movies together: Class (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Broadcast News (1987), Say Anything, (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Cradle Will Rock. Their sister Ann also appeared in Grosse Pointe Blank.
N796J TIL that a Soviet geneticist successfully domesticated foxes on a farm in Novosibirsk. "The fact that in fifty generations, they were wagging their tails and barking, this is really incredible."
R7K9 TIL Monoco’s orchestra is bigger than their army
rRWkW TIL that EA Poe's revenge story "The Cask of Amontillado" was part of a literary feud. Poe's rival Thomas Dunn English wrote a novel, "1844," featuring a drunken wife-abuser based on Poe; Poe, in turn, used details from that novel as the setting for his own murder fantasy about English.
0OB1 TIL that Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws.