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TIL You Shouldn’t Use Cotton Swabs to Clean Your Ears as old earwax is pushed out naturally

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b5la TIL Neil Armstrong would tell unfunny jokes about the moon and follow them with “you woulda had to be there.”
oRKZ8 TIL - the 1923 Okeh Laughing Record from Germany had no credited performers, making it the first and only anonymous record to ever chart
KOJAQ TIL Michelangelo and Leonardo were actually commissioned to paint frescos in the same room on opposite walls and it was to be Florence's premier "event" at the time. They hated each other, bickered, and neither every actually completed their work.
neBAr TIL The 1980s featured a nationally syndicated WWE style scripted version of roller derby with a figure-8 multi story track with jumps and an alligator pit to toss opponents. Players had long backstories and running feuds. There were heel turns and face turns. Scheming managers. It had everything.
obbA TIL In Mexico a cartel drove two pick up trucks onto a rush hour highway and dumped 35 dead bodies in the street.