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TIL that John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, were actually third cousins

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KO8N9 TIL Hasbro has trademarked the smell of Play-Doh. It is described as a “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.”
1axpP TIL about "coffin birth", which is the birth of a fetus after the death of the mother. A well known example of this is the murder of Lacy Peterson, who was pregnant at the time of her murder. However, when found, mother and child were separate, the fetus having been "born" after Lacy's death.
wopB8 TIL No member of the band The Police has naturally blonde hair: they started dyeing their hair for a Wrigley's commercial.
rRyYe TIL in reference to Donald Duck’s nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Disney's archivist Dave Smith, in "Disney A to Z", said, "Note that the brightest hue of the three is red (Huey), the color of water, dew, is blue (Dewey), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green."
YkA7 TIL Christopher Lee makes it his goal to read the Lord of the Rings once a year, every year in memory of his old friend J.R.R Tolkien