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TIL that Andy Dick has been to rehab 20 times.
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TIL the FTC allows manufacturers to place the recycling logo on packaging even if the item is not recyclable.
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TIL in 1984, a episode of Thomas The Tank Engine featured an engine, Henry, who refused to go out in the rain. To solve the problem, the workers boarded Henry up in a cave and abandoned him.
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TIL early on in the Space Shuttle program, flights had a 1 in 9 chance of ending in a catastrophic failure based on recent risk analysis
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TIL While under hypnosis, Betty Hill told of being shown a star map by one of her alien captors. Years later, she sketched what she remembered of the map and determined Zeta Reticuli was where the spacecraft originated from
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TIL that historically, polio was not widely fatal. 72% of all infections were asymptomatic; 24% resulted in mild illness; 1-5% resulted in more serious but short-term symptoms. But polio was still feared, due to the <1% of cases that led to permanent paralysis and death in a further 5-30% of them.