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TIL that “The Woody Woodpecker Song” was nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1948

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JYYM1 TIL that the term for the criminal act "racketeering" is defined as "a repeated or continuous way to illegally obtain or extort money" -usually set up as a form of business.
mxXYM TIL that although they live in a climate inhospitable to crop development, the Inuit do not suffer from vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) due to their diet of frozen and raw fish and mammal organs. By not cooking the food, the vitamin C is not broken down and can be absorbed by the human body.
oRKrK TIL that smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years
R7YWa TIL in the 1860s, before he invented Coca-Cola, John Pemberton created French Wine Coca which was wine mixed with cocaine, and when ingested forms the drug cocaethylene which is 20 times deadlier than cocaine itself. The drink was so popular that the Pope allegedly carried a flask of it with him.
GYG9g TIL that in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sent snowplows instead of tractors to Guinea to win them over and that the US government sent parkas to help the government of the Philipines instead of emergency medical military aid during the Reagan era.