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TIL A Canadian man ordered Brylcreem, a hair styling product from a Canadian e-commerce site in 2012 and received the package in 2020

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epyXL TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
yL0V TIL Ian McDiarmid was only 38 years old when he played the Emperor in Return of the Jedi
L5WZ TIL That the inventor of petroleum jelly ate a spoonful every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. He lived to be 96.
gDoW TIL Ireland exported enormous quantities of food during the height of the 1840’s Great Famine, “more than enough grain crops to feed the population.”
GYYr1 TIL that "Roshambo" (aka rock-paper-scissors) has no association whatsoever with the Comte de Rochambeau, but came from a 17th century Chinese game translated into Japanese and Anglicized in the 1930's.