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TIL that the ancient Chinese used lead as a stimulate and a contraceptive.

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Yp8Gd TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
KOQ79 TIL when a persistent Washington DC bookstore clerk exposed Stephen King as the true author of books written under the name Richard Bachman, King's publishers sent out a press release announcing Bachman's death from "cancer of the pseudonym."
ZpyEp TIL about Raniero Cantalamessa, a friar and cardinal who in his office as Preacher to the Papal Household, is the only person allowed to preach to the Pope
4XwRa TIL that a stolen 9.5 million dollar Stradivarius Cello was nearly turned into a fancy CD rack
b9M7p TIL of the Guaíra Falls, one of the largest waterfalls on Earth that was flooded and lost in order to create a dam