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TIL retinol was predominantly tested on black prisoners, before being marketed to consumers

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OoVgL TIL that Joyce Brothers, the first person to win the eponymous grand prize on "The $64 000 Question" in 1955, was not actually supposed to win. The producers deliberately gave her difficult questions believed to be beyond her abilities as a woman, but Joyce answered them anyways.
ZpKy4 TIL of Snuppy, an Afghan hound and the first cloned dog. The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers. Snuppy was named as Time Magazine's "Most Amazing Invention" of the year in 2005. As of 2017 there are four clones of him.
vm67 TIL that on 9/11, passengers of Delta 15 were forced to land in Gander, Canada, where they stayed for more than 2 days. In appreciation of the hospitality shown by the locals, passengers created a scholarship fund for students of Gander.
ePJ4 TIL, on its page for ‘This Is Spinal Tap,’ IMDb enables users to rate the movie out of 11 stars (e.g. 8.0/11) instead of the standard scale of one to ten.
gMjd4 TIL Gangnam style never hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Not even on the top 100 for 2012