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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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QJ8Gp TIL portobello mushrooms are just grown-up versions of the common and smaller white/brown mushrooms
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