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TIL Peter Lassally, who produced Johnny Carson’s, David Letterman’s, and Craig Ferguson’s shows, is a concentration camp survivor who went to grade school with Anne Frank

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6r18 TIL that in 2009 a notorious serial-marathon-cheater cheated so hard he ended up in front of the race’s pace-car.
PY7QL TIL of John William Godward, an English painter who committed suicide at the age of 61 and left a note stating: "the world is not big enough for [both] myself and a Picasso”. Godward was a neo-classic painter; his style of painting had declined with the rise of modern art.
V7gQ TIL Utah was the first place in America to pass laws against Marijuana, the mormon church was heavily involved in the enactment of this ban
j6NwX TIL. Ants can create a death spiral when losing track of the main group. Walk until death.
XEnKk TIL Kotex, the first-ever brand of sanitary napkins for women, was first manufactured as bandages during WWI. Cellucotton, which was made of wood pulp, was five times as absorbent as cotton bandages but much less expensive. The company needed to find a use for the cellucotton after the war.