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TIL the winners of the 2016 Oscars also received a unofficial giftbag which included a sex toy

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X0Okj TIL the Sound of Music is based on a real Trapp family, and they have a lodge in Vermont
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WbJ4 TIL that an early Chinese surgeon named Hua Tuo used Cannabis mixed with wine as an anaesthetic. As a result the Chinese term for “anesthesia” (mázui 麻醉) literally means “cannabis intoxication”.