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TIL Dandruff isn't from a dry scalp as many people believe, but from an overly oily one.

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jZOa TIL Americans now spend more money on slot machines than movies, baseball, and theme parks combined.
yQDye TIL The largest firework on record used a 62" shell, weighed 2797 pounds, was launched from a 26 ft metal pipe buried into Emerald Mountain in Colorado, and was launched with a starting velocity of at least 300mph.
WkWdX TIL that the 1978 Dodge Sportsman van disguised as an ambulance driven by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the movie 1981 "The Cannonball Run" was actually the real vehicle used by Brock Yates and Hal Needham in what was the final Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash held in 1979.
d89YE TIL The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object you can see with your naked eyes, two million light years away. It is visible as a dim, fuzzy star from a dark sky site. With binoculars you can clearly see the elliptical shape of the galaxy
V9AD TIL: in 2015 more Americans died of prescription opiate overdoses than were murdered or died in traffic accidents.