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TIL A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War

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dDVQE TIL A Canadian man ordered Brylcreem, a hair styling product from a Canadian e-commerce site in 2012 and received the package in 2020
Ne5P TIL that Stalin screened “The Grapes of Wrath” in the Soviet Union to showcase the depredations of life under capitalism. It backfired. Russian audiences marveled that in the United States, even poor people had cars. (6th paragraph)
NXy7J TIL Cheryl Miller, who turned 60 on Wednesday, won two NCAA titles at USC and a gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in basketball. Furthermore, her younger brother Reggie also played basketball.
6EeZ7 TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien. once received a goblet from a fan inscribed with "One Ring to Rule Them All..." inscribed on the rim in black speech. Tolkien never drank out of it, since it was written in an accursed language, and instead used it as an ashtray.
6E4RQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.