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TIL Poverty Kills More People Every Year Than Either Of the Top Killers – Heart Disease or Cancer

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yQKZJ TIL that when Stalin visited his mother in 1935, she asked him what he did. He said "Do you remember the tsar? Well, I'm like a tsar" his mother's response was "You'd have done better to have become a priest".
69P97 TIL that vice grips is a brand name (Vice-Grips) for locking pliers.
neNkG TIL the movie "She's All That" was ghostwritten by M. Night Shyamalan.
ADPa TIL Tic Tacs are labelled as zero sugar despite sugar being it’s primary ingredient because if a single serving contains less than 0.5 g of sugars it is allowable to express the amount of sugar in a serving as zero. One serving is one Tic Tac.
YyXv TIL in a recent survey, philosophy majors ranked ranked themselves higher in regards to innate talent than biochemists, statisticians and physicists.