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J1AkB TIL Teddy Roosevelt's mother was the inspiration for Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
Y677 TIL there were no red M&Ms for over a decade because a common red food coloring was found to cause cancer. M&Ms never contained the cancer causing FD&C Red No. 2, but Mars still pulled all their red candies to avoid consumer confusion.
KOvR4 TIL that the Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest religious organizations in the world, with an "unknown" net worth
JYYlj TIL The human nose can smell at least 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) different smells.
Wlmo TIL of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a bridge whose support towers are so tall and far apart that, due to the curvature of the earth, are almost two inches farther apart at the top than the bottom.