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TIL that the "Q" in Q-tips stands for "quality."

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9w6v7 TIL the most decorated service member in US Military history, Audie Murphy (1925-1971), and the most decorated Airman in Air Force history, Duane Hackney (1947-1993), both died before the age of 47.
8aJWL TIL Marshmello made a colab with Disney and made a Ducktales music video.
GG8N TIL It has been well argued that the sky is red and orange in Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, because the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, was so massive, that it disrupted the earth’s atmosphere. This caused the sky to turn blood red at sunset.
awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.
OoGKe TIL roman emperor Diocletian retired in 305 AD to grow cabbages and tend to his vegetable gardens.