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TIL Dr. Seuss had an affair while his wife suffered from cancer and depression. She killed herself and he married his mistress a few months later.

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plb8 TIL that the inventor of Vaseline was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day; During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 94.
e0QQ5 TIL that a Venice-like city in present-day Micronesia was built in the 8th or 9th century and abandoned by the 17th century.
YnPG TIL Saudi Arabia is the largest consumer (per capita) of YouTube; with women as the biggest audience and education as the largest content category they watch
NKeb TIL the Toyota War was the end phase of the Libyan-Chadian war where the Chadian army and its Toyota pickups destroyed 92 T-55 battle tanks, 33 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, and 784 soldiers while only losing 18 men and three trucks.
mP5x TIL that Jack Nicholson was brought up believing that his mother was his sister and his grandparents were his parents. For 37 years.