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TIL 7 American tobacco CEOs testified under oath that nicotine is not addictive in 1994.

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Z66a TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”
bB19 TIL that in 1792 criminals saw they could make a good profit by filing shavings from the sides of gold and silver coins and selling the precious metal, which is why coins now have ridges on their sides.
neZ5r TIL Amtrak trains running at 2am on the Sunday in November when daylight savings 'falls back" must come to a full stop for one hour. This allows clocks to catch up to the train schedule.
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
nBnG TIL Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary was convinced by QT to forfeit his cowriting credit and accept a “story by” credit, so the line “Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino” could be used instead