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TIL The Actors of Mad Men Smoke Herbal Cigarettes

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4x7X TIL A math professor had worked out an equation to calculate how long into a car journey it takes a child to ask: “Are we there yet?”
dD4LK TIL of Carrie Nation, a woman who fought against the widespread alcohol consumption in the US before the prohibition by attacking saloons with a hatchet
XE1Jk TIL the Honey Possum (of Western Australia) is the only flightless animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.14inches), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005g.
kKwd TIL that in the 1920s, Hitler hired a photographer to take pictures of his poses while he rehearsed his speeches so that he could see if his poses went along well with the content.
nAD7 TIL in 1995, McDonald’s asked Greenpeace activists to stop criticizing their company publicly and instead do it only in private with their friends. Activists said they’d agree if McDonald’s stopped advertising its products and instead only recommended their restaurants privately to friends.