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TIL The number of skin cancer cases due to tanning is higher than the number of lung cancer cases due to smoking

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5Yry8 TIL beaver is considered safe to eat during lent by the Catholic Church.
DpeD TIL Kurt Vonnegut tried to sue a Tobacco company because the packaging promised to kill him and he was 83 years old and they had not fulfilled this promise yet.
jLjE TIL that Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing is made by Clorox and you can cheaply buy it in 20lb bags of powder that turn into 100 gallons of dressing.
8wEX TIL an opposing witness in the Tipper Gore-instigated Senate hearing about so-called “porn rock”, Frank Zappa was asked how something as trivial as record-rating became the subject of a Senate inquiry. Zappa remarked, “A couple of blow-jobs here and there and Bingo! - you get a hearing.”
4X1do TIL: Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac used to speak so less that his colleagues jokingly created a unit of silence in his honour. One 'Dirac' was fewest words it was possible to utter while in company.