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TIL that Terry Bradshaw once used the alias "Tom Brady" while checking into a hospital

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v11R8 TIL FDA has banned the use of microplastic in rinse-off cosmetics.
1a67 TIL - Ulysses S. Grant considered the Civil War God’s punishment for what the United States did to Mexico in the Mexican-American war
x8X7 TIL that the definition of 1 second is; 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the standard Cesium-133 atom. The bases for Atomic Clocks
P1RG TIL there is a desert spider that builds a blanket from its silk and sand, then burrows into the ground, and hides itself in the burrow with said blanket as a cover. It kills unsuspecting prey by trapping it in the silk blanket and then heating it alive against the scorching sand.
Wkl5B TIL one of the best selling books of all time in Germany is "Winnetou", about a fictional American Indian and his sidekick Old Shatterhand. Since being released in 1875, it has sold around 200M copies and has had multiple movies and TV shows made.