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TIL: 4 Marlboro Men Have Died Of Smoking Related Diseases

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Eg8lV TIL about the Lost Cause myth that originated after the Civil War by white Southerners to justify their defeat by downplaying slavery's role, celebrating an idealized South, and persisting through Confederate monuments and racial ideologies that ignore the true nature of slavery or the Civil War.
Z8yYo TIL Biblioteca Joanina is one of only two libraries in the world that house a colony of bats. At night the bats hunt insects inside the library, thus helping with the maintenance of the stacks.
RZLw TIL that Houston airport received an inordinate number of complaints about baggage wait times. In response, officials moved baggage claim farther away so the walk was longer than the wait. The number of complaints plummeted to “near zero.”
p8e9N TIL the reason that Johnny Cash flipped the bird to the camera in the iconic photo was to send a message to the prison warden. The photographer Jim Marshall had asked Johnny to express what he thought of the prison authorities.
oB5aK TIL that after the Disney/Pixar animated film “Ratatouille” was released, demand for rats as pets surged by as much as 50%