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TIL that washing your hair actually damages it and doctors usually don’t comment on it because its not medically harmful.

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YpWd7 TIL Coca-Cola marketing is partly responsible for the modern depiction of Santa Claus. Illustrator Haddon Sundblom drew Santa for a 1931 Coke ad in The Saturday Evening Post. His drawing was inspired by the 1822 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (commonly called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas').
vrmR TIL King George V was euthanized so that his death could be announced in the morning The Times newspaper rather than “less appropriate” evening tabloids
v1L8K TIL 9 and 1/2 weeks the film was based on a book about an actual short term adventurous relationship that turns abusive, and is actually noticeably darker than the film.
gjVL TIL in 2012, over 1 million residents in the Zimbabwe city of Bulawayo were asked to flush their toilets exactly at 7:30 PM on a Saturday to unblock and clear out the sewer system of the city.
rprx TIL There is a chemotherapy drug that erases your finger prints as a side effect