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TIL: NYC had to recall pencils with the message “Too Cool to Do Drugs” on them. As they were sharpened, they’d say “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs”, etc.

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l7M7G TIL Ulysses S. Grant presidency's historical assessment and reputation suffered considerably due to the "Lost Cause" myth spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, before starting to recover in the 21st century.
QJglk TIL of Oskar Gröning, a German soldier who worked at Auschwitz but was able to hide it for 40 years. However, he decided to publish his story after meeting a Holocaust denier, even though he was incriminating himself by doing so.
GoY1 TIL Japanese do not call atomic bomb explosions “mushroom clouds”, they call them “pillar of fire” - because that was how they saw and experienced it.
xV887 TIL Giorgio Moroder created the revolutionary bassline to I Feel Love after being disappointed at how unfuturistic the Cantina band was in Star Wars.
DQQKp TIL: Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide