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TIL that 80% of black smokers smoke menthols

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M71dm TIL in 1927 the University of Michigan had two live Wolverines as mascots”Biff and Bennie”. However, they were so ferocious the players refused to carry them around and soon were too vicious to have in campus and were given back to the Detroit zoo.
wLJxM TIL David E. Durston, the director of 'I Drink Your Blood' and 'Manhole' is associated with two suspicious deaths. Durston had a fight with actress Carol Wayne, 3 days later she was found dead by fishermen. Durston visited actress Diane Linkletter at 3am, she jumped out a 6th story window at 9am.
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