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TIL Americans spend the same proportion of their income (.4%) on computers today as they did on nails in 1810

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4d65 TIL that Will Smith doesn’t use profanity in his lyrics because his grandmother wrote to him “intelligent people do not use these words to express themselves”
ovlE TIL that the real Woody Doll’s voice from Toy Story is not Tom Hanks, but it’s his brother’s voice.
LpMr TIL that one of Hitlers close friends and personal driver (Emil Maurice) had a Jewish ancestry. Hitler declared Emil and his brothers Honorary Aryans so that they could stay in the SS
ADP5a TIL To punish and deter illegal tree-cutting around Christmas time, some cities and universities spray trees with fox urine. It freezes on the trees and is odorless outside, but the smell becomes "eye-watering" and irremovable once brought inside.
epxM5 TIL That Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) and Delta blues musician Bukka White (BB King's older cousin) were incarcerated together at Parchman Farm, Mississippi from 1937-1939