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TIL Comedian Steven Wright is an Oscar winner

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nebxb TIL In 1940, Churchill and De Gaulle briefly supported merging France and Britain into a single nation, with joint citizenship, a single currency, and a constitution.
R5a77 TIL of the WWII Kaimingjie Germ Weapon Attack, a Japanese biological warfare germ strike attack on Chinese cities using fleas infected with cholera and the bubonic plague
XEZYr TIL about Thurl Ravenscroft, the man who voiced Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes commercials ("They're g-r-r-r-eat!") and was the uncredited singer of the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch".
OoK9g TIL about how the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication. Advent of the tamper proof seal we see and know today. The murders still remain unsolved to this day
bMx4 TIL if you stare at yourself in a mirror 1.5m away, you’re looking at yourself 10 nanoseconds in the past (ignoring visual processing time)