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TIL the largest anti-smoking ad campaign “Truth” is funded by the tobacco companies as part of a settlement to be exempted from individual lawsuits stemming from harm caused by tobacco.

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Lk17v TIL Raymond Teller (from Penn and Teller) once sued a YouTube magician for selling the secrets behind one of his acts.
Wn5A TIL The Count from Sesame Street’s favorite number is 34,969.
oRyPo TIL that an eye has 2 million moving parts along with millions of rods and cones cells.
bRBE TIL the Dodge Brothers built all of the engines for Oldsmobile and all of the parts for the Ford Model T. They also served beer to employees at the factory on hot days and had a part of the plant called the “Play Pen” where workers could invent and create things after hours.
LklLm TIL about hedonic adaptation, which is the tendency for people to return to a baseline happiness level regardless of what happens to them. A study conducted on lottery winners and paraplegics concluded that neither group was either happier or sadder less than 6 months after the event.