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TIL Type A personality theory had early association with the smoking industry, who funded researchers in hopes of proving it was personality that lead to heart disease, not tobacco use.

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b89p TIL because President Kennedy had named From Russia with Love among his ten favourite books of all time, producers Broccoli and Saltzman chose this as the second Bond movie. From Russia with Love was the last film Kennedy saw at the White House on 20 November 1963 before going to Dallas.
a8GML TIL with a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse (the tenth-brightest star in the night), if it were at the centre of our Solar System, would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
BrEgW TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. Day resulted from a campaign by Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron, the musician behind The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
GY4PJ TIL of the Burnside Fountain, "Boy With Turtle," infamous in a nearby town for its design. Sculptor Charles Y. Harvey killed himself a week after beginning the piece, claiming to have heard voices coming from inside the sculpture which instructed him to commit suicide on a specific date.
ANpjo TIL Hitler loathed New Zealanders as a “lower form of human being”. At a speech given on 15 July 1925 he argued that New Zealanders lived in trees and ”clambered around on all fours”, having not yet learned to walk upright.