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TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation

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xwOo TIL painter Bob Ross, a Florida native, had never seen snow or mountains that he went on to so frequently depict until he was posted to Alaska during his service in the United States Air Force.
yQZG8 TIL The songwriter Robert Lopez is responsible for co-writing the songs in both Book of Mormon and Frozen. He is the youngest person to ever receive an EGOT and is the only person to achieve an EGOT twice.
nWw17 TIL the movie Rollerball (2002 version) was released with a PG-13 rating but was filmed and later released in an R rated version, which contained only "3 minutes of discarded violence and nudity" not used in the PG-13 version.
y0LX TIL that Mars Inc. do not support the practice of deep-frying Mars bars in batter, as “deep-frying one of our products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy, active lifestyles.”
b6Oe4 TIL that tobacco smoke enemas were so accepted as a resuccitation treatment for drowning in 1700's Europe that emergency smoke enema kits were placed next to the River Thames in London. Doubts about the utility might also be the source of the expression about "blowing smoke up your ass."