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TIL the female backing singer during Elvis's infamous "laughing" version of Lonesome Tonight, who keeps singing as Elvis struggles to regain his composure because of it, was Cissa Houston, Whitney Houston's mother

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VZM4 TIL that the OED included a trap, made up word, “Esquivalience” which it defined to mean “the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities” as a copyright infringement trap which caught both Dictionary.com and Google Dictionary.
R5RD1 TIL about the first Crowdfunded Indian movie Manthan (Hindi), which was about the dairy cooperative pioneer Verghese Kurien who started the "White revolution" in India. The film was entirely funded by 500,000 dairy farmers each contributing Rs 2, showing the success of "collective might".
R7Rj7 TIL Pistachios used to almost always be sold coated with a deep red dye, to hide harmlessly but unattractively splotchy hulls. Discolored hulls is no longer an issue with better harvesting technology, allowing today's pistachios to be sold without dye.
0d7py TIL about the Vipeholm experiments, a series of human experiments where patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were fed large amounts of sweets, including "extra sticky toffee" to provoke dental caries.
6ElYJ TIL that there is a McDonald’s located in an 19th century mansion in New York. McDonald’s originally planned to destroy the house, but historians protested and a compromise was made.