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TIL that Vitamin E doesn’t help heal scars quicker. It actually causes dermatitis up to 33% of the time.

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JYXlm TIL: Before electricity, theatrical groups would heat up calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, for stage lighting. This is where the expression “in the limelight” originates from. People use to literally be in the limelight.
LX8p TIL when Mel Blanc went into a coma in 1961, his doctors got him to communicate by addressing him as Bugs Bunny. Blanc responded in character but did not remember the conversations.
mxxNY TIL there are more horses than people in Mongolia.
K7lw TIL the Miami Heat retired Michael Jordan’s number 23 in April 2003 for “contributions to basketball.” He never played for the team.
EOrV TIL the NFL earns revenues of $9 billion and doesn’t pay taxes. This is because in 1966, the phrase which allowed “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade” as non-profits was changed to include “or profession football leagues”.