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x6oX1 TIL John Ratzenberger chose to have his Cheers character Cliff Claven wear white socks in honor of French comic actor Jacques Tati
AYgg TIL The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” appeared in a small town in Alberta, Canada in 1927
OBxe TIL When Teddy Roosevelt was president, you could just draw big teeth and circular glasses on an envelope and the letter would end up at the White House (Conan’s new interview show…awesome)
LQjK9 TIL that in the 1920s, you could order glass burial caskets from a catalog, for adults or children.
R7RZ1 TIL the 1918 flu was recreated from a victim found in the Alaskan permafrost. Monkeys infected with the flu strain had classic symptoms of the 1918 pandemic, and died from a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system. This helps to understand why healthy individuals died from the flu.