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TIL that in an effort to make smoking "safer" one company decided to add a new, high-tech filter to their cigarettes. The filter was made out of asbestos. This decision did not end well.

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PYmNe TIL In the song "Come and get your love" by Redbone, they're not singing "Hey!" in the chorus, but actually "Hail!".
W7VBL TIL that using 'Vale' instead of 'RIP' for obituaries is unique to Australia. This is quite common in Australia, and is frequently seen in the media. Vale is Latin for farewell and is considered a non-religious version of RIP.
8aG0X TIL, the Midnight Club was a secret street racing team in Tokyo, bound by a strict moral code that put pedestrian/motorist safety first. The club disbanded in 1999 when a race turned accident killed innocent drivers
4XoE5 TIL that Julius Caesar is thought to have suffered from epilepsy. He had one of these seizures during the decisive Battle of Thapsus where his veteran army even though outnumbered and without a leader managed to win the day .
GKE4 TIL that, following Kanye West’s infamous interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMA’s, Comedy Central aired the South Park episode “Fishsticks”, which prominently lampoons West’s ego problems, four times back-to-back.