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TIL Shirley Temple shot Eleanor Roosevelt in the butt with a slingshot

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v1ZnD TIL about DNP,a chemical that causes rapid weight loss in humans.It was prescribed to 100,000 people in the 1930s in the US and then discontinued after 2 people used 10x the recommended dose and died.It's being studied as potential treatment for obesity,Alzheimer's,Parkinson's diseases and epilespy.
Vg78 TIL that McDonald’s restaurants on Canada’s east coast have a seasonal ‘McLobster’ sandwich.
QNML6 TIL that in 1992, on a background of high inflation and poor productivity, the British Pound collapsed, costing the UK Government 3.4B Pounds and forcing withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
4XXV6 TIL that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan installed an 11 meter (36 ft) tall marble statue of a middle finger directly in front of the Milan Stock exchange as a clear message to Italy's CEOs and Bankers
r9Xe TIL Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park) majored in music and Japanese, explaning the well done musical numbers and Japanese satire in the show.