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TIL The Nazis were the first to convincingly link smoking to lung cancer and first coined the phrase passive smoking.

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ZB7D TIL that the They Might Be Giants album Apollo 18 features a song that made use of the shuffle feature on CD players. Made of 21 separate tracks, you get a new sonic experience every time it is played.
xyAk TIL Earth is the only known celestial body to have tectonic plates
ODEL TIL that the element Francium is so rare, that only 30 grams of it exists within the earth’s crust.
R7EA9 TIL in WWII, the Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany became one of the Western Allies greatest and highest-level sources in Berlin, offering up information on the invasion of the Soviet Union, German defenses at the Atlantic Wall, and more...without ever knowing his cables had been decrypted
D9Bv TIL Minnesota’s program for “sexual psychopaths” has never fully released a patient in its 21-year history, essentially constituting a life sentence.