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TIL Aluminum cans have a plastic liner on the inside

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mxdgv TIL in 1985 two co-workers from Sears recorded a rap song for a friend's class project. That song grew in popularity as radio stations started playing it. Although they called themselves Super Nature, the song had the line, "we the Salt and Pepa MCs" so listeners and DJ's dubbed them Salt-N-Peppa.
Vwp8 TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are once replied to a young boys fan mail with a hand drawn picture of one of his characters. The boy’s mother wrote back saying simply “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”
nWGMW TIL that there's a turtles species capable of breathing under water through its butt. Cloacal respiration is a built-in scuba diving system
694kl TIL that the first physician and scientist to cure cancer in humans, Min Chiu Li, was fired from the National Cancer Institute for how he treated his cancer patients. It was not until many years later that the Institute recognized Li’s scientific achievements.
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