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TIL that Johnny Cash’s estate once refused permission for his hit “Ring of Fire” to be used in a commercial for haemorrhoid cream.

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b6MD7 TIL water exists on the sun
pA5Z TIL that every US President is/was related to George Washington, except Gerald Ford.
vP5ND TIL If you feed a human body to pigs, they will eat just about all of it except the teeth. Several murderers in rural areas have used this fact to their advantage.
nWEmW TIL that people with aphantasia cannot visualize or picture memories
a8eQy TIL that when Radio Shack in 1977 planned its first personal computer, the $599 TRS-80, it built 3,500 units. The company had never sold that many of anything at that price, and planned to use the computer for inventory in its 3,500 stores if it failed. More than 200,000 were sold by 1980.