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TIL Tears caused by sadness, happiness, and onions look different under a microscope.

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M7QJK TIL An American firm wrote to the Beatles asking if they could market the Beatles' bath water at a dollar a bottle. They refused the offer.
5VmeR TIL that amercians use "Schmuck" (ger: jewellery) instead of "Shmock" (yid: turd) for insulting people
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.
XEr6k TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.
pY9JA TIL Olive Oyl was the main character 10 years before Popeye in their original comic strip