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TIL the origins for the nursery rhyme "Rub a dub dub" was actually about shaming otherwise resectable people for going to peep shows.

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neJ4d TIL about the Dionne quintuplets. They lived in a specially built hospital nicknamed "Quintland" in the mid 1930's in Ontario. They were the biggest tourist attraction at the time, bringing in more than $50 million in revenue and were also used in film and to promote Quaker Oats.
raJy TIL When Stalin’s son attempted suicide by shooting himself, Stalin’s response to finding out he would survive was “He cant even shoot straight”.
0wRxv TIL Natural gas has no smell. Gas companies are required to add a chemical called mercaptin as a safety precaution, so people know the smell and can identify a leak.
W7yMY TIL in Korea, snack sausage sales increased by 40% during winter of 2010 from people using them as styluses on their touched screen phones without taking off their gloves.
E1Wkw TIL that now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was instrumental in ending the 1994-95 MLB Baseball Strike