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TIL of an old brand of cigarettes named "Death". Slogans on the packaging included phrases such as "Let Us Be The Nail In Your Coffin", "The Grim Reaper Don't Come Cheaper", and "Cigarettes are addicting and debilitating. If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit."

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VBgo0 TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
VM70B TIL President Dwight D Eisenhower had four American heroes and one was General Robert E Lee. He hung four portraits in his office and one was Lee's; the others were President Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, President Washington and Lee.
X0ZJP TIL of the Rule in Saunders v. Vaultier. If you are entitled to property in a will but the will-maker directs that you may only be paid upon reaching a certain age, you can demand the money be paid to you forthwith as soon as you are an adult.
ne7Xd TIL that during a famous Berlin performance of 'Mack the Knife', Ella Fitzgerald forgot the words to the song after the first verse, and ad libbed the rest. She won a Grammy for the performance.
gMEWX TIL Operation Midnight Climax was established in order to study the effects of LSD. Sex workers on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were given LSD and studied through a one way glass to see if this could help the CIA's mind-control research program.