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TIL the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the “Vargas Award.”

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1WZ7 TIL on June 27, 1844, Mormon Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by an angry mob while he sat in a jail cell. The incident arose after Smith ordered the destruction of a news paper that exposed the fact he had married 8 already-married women.
7rYVb TIL Encyclopedia Britannica’s own market research showed that the typical encyclopedia owner opened his or her volumes less than once a year. They bought them for prestige, not for knowledge.
yQlAJ TIL smoking is more likely to cause bladder cancer than lung cancer and that is due to all toxins ending up down there before being flushed down the toilet.
awVZ0 TIL that not rinsing the mouth after brushing teeth, make the teeth healthier, cleaner and less prone tocavities
MejXB TIL that a MASSIVE solar storm just barely missed Earth in 2012. Power grids all over the world would have been catastrophically compromised & so would the lives of the entire population.