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TIL that Jessica Simpson became addicted to nicotine gum but has never smoked, she was given the gum by accident.

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XEoXR TIL that, according to the CIA, the average Soviet citizen (during the Cold War) was likely better fed than the average American
jA9Q TIL that Mars Candy Incorporated found E.T. so ugly that the company refused to allow M&M’s to be used in the film, believing the creature would frighten children. This allowed The Hershey Company the opportunity to market Reese’s Pieces.
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
Mex6A TIL of Active Measures, a Soviet programme of political warfare used mainly to weaken the West by sowing discord amongst allies, fracture alliances in particular NATO and to tarnish the image of the United States in the eyes of the rest of the world.
mxQYE TIL that the former Secretary General of the UN and later President of Austria, Kurt Waldheim, was an accused Nazi who as President was put on a Watch List by the US as an 'potential undesirable'