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TIL that a French inventor claims to have invented a pill that makes farts smell like chocolate

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4Wva TIL Jack White of the White Stripes was saving Seven Nation Army’s guitar riff in case he got asked to do a James Bond theme
85Zb TIL an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Among other damage, plane parts severed the cables for an elevator and the woman inside fell over 70 stories. She lived and holds the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.
RvBl TIL: There is a nonprofit that lets you make microloans as little as $25 to help people escape poverty, has taken in nearly $700 million, gives 100% of your donation to the cause, and has a repayment rate of 98.80%
LQrBv TIL that the only time when more than half of the American public believed that the Apollo space program was worth the expense came at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969. Even then it only received 53% approval.
ADZm7 TIL Elvis Presley met with Richard Nixon. He wanted to get a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs because with it “he [believed he] could legally enter any country... carrying any drugs he wished.” After denouncing America's drug culture to the President, the King got his wish.