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TIL that Hergé's Tintin album "Cigars of the Pharaoh" was made into a play in 1941 called Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond.

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jNL0a Today I learned that undercover cops wear a “Color of the Day” in order to not mistake each other for civilians. Put in place after a white cop killed a black undercover cop.
lokma TIL whale oil was used in GM transmissions until the early 70’s.
oBgA TIL in 1984, to prove to people that leprosy is difficult to catch through close contact, Pope John Paul II kissed a number of lepers in a South Korean leper colony.
Za7a TIL President Johnson would regularly expose himself, and when asked why we were in Vietnam, pulled his penis out and said “This is why.”
JRNj TIL Key and Peele are in Weird Al’s White and Nerdy