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TIL Venting your anger online only makes you angrier, a study found

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pGa4 TIL that Kent cigarettes, a popular brand from the 50s through the 70s, had filters made of asbestos fibers. (and yes, that is the bad kind of asbestos)
PYynO TIL that giving children the names of Nutella, Manhattan, Prince William or Mini Cooper are illegal in France.
Berb TIL that the song title “Cake by the Ocean” originated when DNCE’s Swedish producers mistranslated the phrase “sex on the beach” to “cake by the ocean”.
W7XVo TIL Helios 522 was a case of a "Ghost Plane", the cabin didn't pressurize and all but one on board passed out from hypoxia. The plane circled in a holding pattern for hours driven by autopilot before flight attendant Andreas Prodromou took over the controls, crashing into a rural hillside.
Gkw4 TIL Ernest Hemingway took a urinal from his favorite bar and moved it into his Key West home, arguing that he had “pissed away” so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it.