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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.

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Ypxgd TIL Cellini's statue of Perseus with the Head of Medusa was placed in Florence facing Michelangelo's statue of David. Since David is facing Medusa's head, he turns to stone. This symbolized the Medici family regaining power over the Republic of Florence, which the David was a symbol for.
Q5Zk TIL the reason cocaine was removed from Coca Cola was not because people learned the negative health impact of the drug but because of racial fears on the part of white Americans
OGGwa TIL Sigmund Freud was the first to state that cerebral palsy can be caused by abnormal development before birth. He noticed that some children who experienced oxygen loss during childbirth were not affected, while others were
aJdL TIL there are about 200,000 Africans in the city of Guangzhou, China, their number increasing by 30-40% every year, the area they live in is now called “Chocolate City” by locals
EaAW TIL Americans use an average of 433 million miles of toilet paper each year, enough to stretch to the sun and back