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TIL That the actress in Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke" who snorts the AJAX is the one who came up with the band name "Three Dog Night", which is meant to describe how cold a night is, and how many dogs you'd have to sleep with to stay warm

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VMKB8 TIL On a US Navy submarine using the "emergency blow activator, or 'chicken switch,'" is "a last resort in emergency situations." "Throwing the switch immediately blasts large volumes of compressed air into all of a submarine's ballast tanks, bringing the boat to the surface as quickly as possible."
oBNZY TIL Our bodies, when healthy, produce 1 to 1.5 liters of snot every day. Most of it trickles down our throat unnoticed.
9YkpM TIL former US President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who was originally slated to be Thanksgiving dinner at the White House
mxOKY TIL- There is a World Trade Center tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Designed by the same architect, used the same building materials, and built at the same time.
NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.