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TIL Elon Musk produced “Thank You For Smoking”

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Bgbxx TIL the oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for $5.04 million. The roughly 1,500-year-old stone was discovered in 1913, but went on to be used as paving outside someone's house for three decades until a scholar bought it in 1943 and recognized its historic importance.
JWLv TIL that during WWI, Sgt. Alvin Cullum York led a seven-man assault on a German machine gun nest in France and captured 32 machine guns, 132 German soldiers and killing at least 20 others.
5Vm9r TIL 'First, do no harm' is not part of the Hippocratic Oath
RWPw TIL that goldfish have teeth in the back of their throat
kO91E TIL There are only two remaining residential buildings from the 19th century in what was at the time one of Detroit's most fashionable areas. The units of one house built in 1888 are mostly rented out to Wayne State University students and faculty