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TIL Halls Cough drops are seen as candy in warmer parts of the world.

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9Z6m TIL there was a 50,000 word novel written in 1939 that doesn’t use a single letter “E”
P1xwV TIL in 1974 sales from McDonald's Shamrock Shake help fund the building the first Ronald McDonald House, which keeps families closer to their children needing hospital visits.
ZXnG TIL Stephen Hawking pulled out of conference in Israel hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians
OG9K4 TIL that 355/113 (an extremely close approximation of PI) has a name, "Milü".
R7g9w TIL that John and Clarence Anglin, who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962, reportedly attended their mother’s funeral in women’s clothes.