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TIL Philip Morris launched the Marlboro brand in 1924 as a woman’s cigarette.

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E0lW TIL the President of Ecuador offered to let the US keep an airbase in his country, but only if Ecuador could have a base in Miami.
X07Y6 TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days
P117e TIL there's a D&D game that's been going on for 40 years. The Dungeon Master became a history professor so he could craft more believable worlds for his game.
W4Q9 TIL David Kelly, a weapons expert, was found dead in July 2003, a month after claiming that what appeared to be Iraq’s mobile weapons laboratories, were facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons. He was questioned by the parliamentary committee two days prior to his death.
VBNL8 TIL that Raheel Ahmad asked for Rapper Lil Uzi Vert to help pay for the $90,000 Tuition for Temple University, and he did. Raheel finished with a 3.5 GPA and the two reunited together in celebration.