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TIL that a third of the items returned to Amazon are simply destroyed in order to save time and space.

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neK5b TIL Dorothy Parker gave her estate to Martin Luther King when she died. After he was killed, her estate was bequeathed to the NAACP. After many years of contestation, during which her ashes were kept in a filing cabinet, she now resides at NAACP headquarters as a Defender of Human and Civil Rights.
LQ5r TIL that Malcolm X was declared mentally unfit for military service after telling draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers”.
PQ1n TIL that Tylenol has been shown to reduce the emotional pain associated with anxiety.
4NVX TIL that during WWII the owner of Coca-Cola made sure “to see that every American in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola, wherever he is and whatever it costs the Company.”
7j5x TIL that treadmills were originally used as punishment for prisoners.