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TIL Camel Cigarettes once made a series of ads exposing magicians' secrets.

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kOpvm TIL Mr Potato Head was originally just the accessories. You provided your own potatoes.
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RlA1 TIL that the longest anyone has ever survived in a shipwrecked raft was 133 days by a Chinese man named Poon Lim. He survived the ordeal by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water. He died exactly 23 years ago at the age of 72.
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