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TIL that the song “Shaving Cream”, despite having been written and released in 1946, peaked at #30 on the Billboard charts in 1975 thanks to the Dr. Demento Show.

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yQ5rp TIL Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is toxic to snakes. Dead mice laced with the drug are air dropped in Guam’s jungles in order to control invasive brown tree snake populations.
Lkorr TIL A volcano eruption in Martinique in 1902 eradicated a city of 30.000. Of the 3 survivors, one was a man who ended up in jail after a brawl the night before. His underground solitary cell was the safest building in the city
5yer TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
waV6 TIL that J. Edgar Hoover falsely claimed that a woman who “couldn’t plan breakfast” had been criminal mastermind and gang leader, after she was killed in a shootout between her son and the FBI. Hoover’s version of her inspired Ma Beagle in DuckTales, and Ma Fratelli in The Goonies.
woJA8 TIL the actress and dancer that modeled for the character Snow white in the Disney animated film was 14 when she began dating a 26 year old animator Art Babbit. They married when she was 17 and him 29. The marriage lasted less than 3 years