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TIL the origin of the phrase “government cheese”

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GxWE TIL that John Belushi’s death was initially ruled a drug-related accident, but 2 months later a groupie named Catherine Smith admitted to the National Enquirer that she had injected Belushi with the lethal “speedball” injection. Smith served 15 months in prison for manslaughter.
9w6Pr TIL that Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median was 30.4.
0V1A TIL the Can-Can was originally considered scandalous as it became popular in the mid-19th century because many women of that time wore pantalettes, which had an open crotch, meaning that a high kick could be unintentionally revealing
wLLY8 TIL the first domesticated dog in North America lived in Idaho, USA around 10,400 BC
voXK TIL: Woolly mammoths were still around when they were building the pyramids. In school they taught woolly mammoths were around during the ice age, tens if thousands of years ago, in fact they were around a lot longer than that, up until 1700B.C. 900 years after the first pyramid began construction.