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TIL that a hemorrhoid cream company once tried unsuccessfully to use Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ in a commercial.

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R5Dl9 TIL - The device reconnaissance aircraft use to measure the yield of a nuclear weapon is called a "bhangmeter."
mxn1O TIL that during the 1918 flu pandemic the Governor of American Samoa John Martin Poyer quarantined the territory. American Samoa was one of the few places in the world to not suffer any flu deaths.
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.
pLPO TIL that John Adams’s daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811
nA1b TIL a 21 year old college student, Maura Murray, mysteriously vanished in Feb 2004 after she wrecked and abandoned her car in the New Hampshire White Mountain area. Only 3 minutes passed between being last seen and an office arriving to find she was gone. She has never been found or heard from since