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TIL that Nazis presented the first epidemiological study linking tobacco use and cancer and launched the first and most broadly reaching anti-smoking campaign of modern times.

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p8BdQ TIL when Rupert Murdoch (then-owner of 20th Century Fox) was shown a rough cut of "Titanic" to appease him over how much money James Cameron was spending on the film, Murdoch said "I can see why you like the movie, but it's no Air Force One."
N7eOb TIL of Lulu the pot bellied pig, who upon seeing her owner have a heart attack, ran into the street and played dead. When someone stopped, she led him into the house to her owner who was ultimately saved
Za9B TIL of Adwaita, a 255 year old tortoise that was born 26 years before the Declaration of Independence and died in 2006.
BmNd TIL that three government research institutes spent several years and millions of dollars creating a version of kimchi that could safely (and without disgusting other astronauts) be sent into space with South Korea’s first astronaut, Ko San: space kimchi.
oRvlA TIL out of the world's ten most polluted cities nine are in India