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TIL there’s a pill that could replace sunscreen in 3 years

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JnGl TIL $41 billion worth of gift cards have likely gone unredeemed from 2005 to 2011.
LQDpp TIL that Jeremy Renner (best known for his role as Hawkeye in the MCU) worked as a Makeup Artist early on in his career
ADlWn TIL that the modern fairy tale version of 'Beauty and the Beast' can be traced back almost 300 years to French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneu in 1740, but research seems to indicate that the story of Beauty And The Beast is about 4,000 years old (as is Rumpelstiltskin).
yenM TIL Hunter S. Thompson appeared outside Jack Nicholson’s home on the night of Nicholson’s birthday. He set off a high-powered spotlight and gunfire and played a tape of animal cries through an amplifier to awaken him. Thompson then left a freshly-cut elk’s heart on Nicholson’s door as a joke.
4kNbJ TIL that Germany hunted native bears to extinction in the 1800s