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TIL Advil has a candy coating

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d8VaB TIL that the longest game in baseball history went for 33 innings for a total of 8 1/2 hours. The game was so long that when pitcher Luis Aponte got home at 3AM, his wife didn't believe his story for being gone. He had to promise her that he would show her proof of the game in the next day's paper.
0wa8y TIL "All Dogs Go To Heaven" was originally about a canine private eye, and one of three short stories making up an anthology film. The character of a shaggy German Shepherd was designed specifically for Burt Reynolds.
8eMlP TIL that Makoto Shinkai's Your Name is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than ￥10 billion at the Japanese box office
Wk4M8 TIL proslavery literature was written after the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' like the parody 'Aunt Phillis's Cabin' which states: "slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind"
v1Ky7 TIL that in 2014, a Spanish 20-year-old university student forged police and secret service documents, infiltrated the king’s coronation ceremony, shook his hand, and then impersonated a government adviser to broker a lucrative business deal.