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TIL in 1994, Crayola released a set of scented crayons but had to remove some of the scents a year later because parents complained that some of the crayons smelled good enough to eat.

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gkV4 TIL of Dora Ratjen of Nazi Germany who competed as a woman in the olympics and broke women’s world records; but was arrested for fraud when he was turned out to be a man named Hermann, with all his rewards taken back and given to the women he beat
VQKG TIL that as President, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swimming rabbit.
ORog TIL that in the state of Ohio, an employer does not have to give a break to someone when they are working if they are over 18.
kwWm TIL That in 1850 only 8% of the people in California were women
QNGGa TIL about the "Infernal Machine", a 25-barreled gun that the Corsican revolutionary Giuseppe Fieschi tried to assassinate King Louis Phillippe I with in 1835. The device killed 18 people in a single volley and injured 22 (as well as Fieschi himself), but only mildly grazed the King.