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TIL Roald Dahl wrote a sequel to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ where they use the glass elevator to go into space and fight aliens. Another sequel, 'Charlie in the White House’, remains unfinished.

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MD4b TIL there was a famous racehorse called Potoooooooo (or Pot-8-O) who acquired the strange spelling of his name, Potatoes, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it
Y7XmA TIL That Anthrax is not a poison but rather an infectious disease that naturally occurs in the world and can also be recreated in a lab
oR1AR TIL a 1991 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that a Camel cigarette ad campaign featuring the mascot Joe Camel was far more successful at advertising to children than adults. The campaign ended in 1997 after increased litigation & pressure from U.S. federal agencies.
E1nRx TIL Cannabis is the only FDA schedule I drug where the overdose death rate stays consistently constant year after year at exactly zero.
Kxw9 TIL that Gmail was launched on April 1,2004 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank.They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services provided between 5MB - 50MB.