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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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v1eM8 TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that Jimi Hendrix faked his death and became Morgan Freeman
Mebva TIL that the model for Uncle Sam on the famous 1917 poster “I Want You” is the face of the painter, James Montgomery who used his own picture in order to avoid the need to find a model. For effect, he aged his portrait and added the goatee beard.
J1R9V TIL that the dinosaur Cryolophosaurus has been nicknamed "Elvisaurus", due to a nasal crest on top of its skull that gives it a "pompadour" appearance.
pJOe TIL that if the 2005 Tour De France championship had to be given to the fastest finisher not accused of doping, it would have to go to the guy who came in 23rd, Swiss Leonardo Piepoli.
DQx9e TIL; Before leaving the Titanic, a second officer forgot to hand over a key to the locker - which housed the ships' binoculars. The lookouts that night later said, if they had binoculars, they would have avoided the iceberg.