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TIL canned food may last decades longer than the expiration dates suggest

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5pyQ TIL: President Nixon’s daughter married President Eisenhower’s grandson.
16RoO TIL Kitum Cave, Kenya, believed to be the source of Ebola and Marburg, two of the deadliest diseases known to man. An expedition was staged by the US military in the 1990s in an attempt to identify the vector species presumably residing in the cave. It is one of the most dangerous places on Earth
gyQ4 TIL Joan Rivers, a regular guest host, was banned from The Tonight Show after a falling out with Johnny Carson after Rivers accepted a hosting gig on FOX. In 2014 Fallon invited her back to “Tonight”, 49 years to the day after her first appearance. She died 6 months later.
Y7ywA ITL Vin Diesel recorded over 1,000 variations of "I am Groot" for "Guardians of the Galaxy" to express different emotions. He also voiced the line in languages like Spanish, Italian, Russian and Mandarin for international releases!
evx5 TIL that the English language evolves so rapidly in the United States that is possible to roughly estimate one’s age simply based on whether they say “on accident” or “by accident”