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TIL that the sampled moaning heard on the background of Prince's "Peach" track was recorded by Kim Basinger.

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DN7D TIL that at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania, workers were required to work – in some cases walking 15 miles a day – in 100+ degree heat. When the news broke, Amazon’s initial response was to keep an ambulance outside the warehouse.
wLkNo TIL the Wright brothers may not have done what they did if not for a hockey accident that sent Wilbur Wright into a depression, causing him to cancel his plans of going to Yale, and eventually open the bicycle shop with his brother.
W7k79 TIL: the Pringles mascot was only known as 'Mr. P', in 2006 as a hoax, someone added the name 'Julius', which was subsequently picked up by other news outlets. By 2013 Kelloggs had formally acknowledged the name as Julius Pringles.
0weay TIL that the longest palindromic word included in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, meaning a knock at the door. It was coined by James Joyce in "Ulysses."
BgExK TIL kissing someone mouth-to-mouth is safer than shaking their hand. Coughing on someone's face is also safer than a handshake.