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TIL For decades the lead industry successfully blamed parents (specifically minorities) for child lead poisoning

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Wkav4 TIL rapper Nate Dogg served 3 years in the US Marines
jNybv TIL Princess Diana was a self-mutilator. She publicly admitted throwing herself down stairs whilst pregnant and cutting herself with razors, penknives, and other kitchen tools because of her torment over her marriage relationship.
4kOjX TIL: A high school in Minnesota is partially named for the founders of Totino's Pizza (Totino-Grace High School)
QNKoe Today I learned that on April 3, 1919, Yankees centerfielder Ping Bodie defeated an ostrich in a pasta-eating contest
7rlpx TIL that Christmas as we know it (family gatherings, seasonal food & drink, games, festive generosity, even saying Merry Christmas), is largely the result of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Before 1843 Christmas was associated w/ countryside peasant revelry & disconnected from modern city life.