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TIL “Vicks VapoRub doesn’t relieve nasal congestion. But the strong menthol odor of VapoRub tricks your brain. As a result, you feel like you’re breathing through an unclogged nose.”

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8aboV TIL Richard Valenzuela, better known as Ritchie Valens, was born in California and only spoke English at home. Valens had to learn the lyrics phonetically to record "La Bamba" in Spanish.
XEEMQ TIL the man who coined the phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” briefly had Ted Bundy as his driver and bodyguard
R5ngj TIL about actor Rip Torn, who, while off his guts on drugs and lack of sleep, attacked writer Norman Mailer with a hammer. On camera.
mx84O A 23-year-old man fell into Yellowstone Park's hot spring and completely dissolved within a day. The waters of the hot spring aren't just incredibly hot, but very acidic too. This is due to one of the largest magma chambers in the world beneath the spring.
kO8ld TIL that we were not the 'fastest sperm', but rather the lucky ones that reached the egg after many others have broken down the thick layers of cells protecting it.