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TIL Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking with lung cancer

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pYZBZ TIL the disappearance of Mt Kilimanjaro's glaciers is driven by solar radiation, since the air around it is rarely above freezing. Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available.
YL8r TIL that Pamela Anderson once commissioned a painting of herself from renowned pop artist Mel Ramos and when it was finished she couldn’t afford to buy it.
W77D9 TIL about Kanzi, a male bonobo that learned language by eavesdropping on the lessons that researchers were giving to his adoptive mother.
Dpgg TIL that the phrase “spittin’ image” is a shortening of the phrase “spit and image,” indicating that a child is both the spit (substance) and image (likeness) of their parents.
xVyXb TIL In four years at West Point, General Custer amassed a record-total of 726 demerits, one of the worst conduct records in the history of the academy, and finished at the bottom of his class