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TIL There is a chemotherapy drug that erases your finger prints as a side effect

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J1PmQ TIL In 1957 Ford sponsored a CBS TV special hosted by Bing Crosby to promote their new model, the Edsel. It included performances by Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, and Bob Hope. Because Bing Crosby was an early investor in the technology, it is the oldest known videotaped show.
wLELP TIL that Along a lonely stretch of highway in Awa-shi, Japan, a rare vending machine sells homemade meals of fresh curry over rice. The vending machine owner, Tadashi Yoshimoto, grows the rice in every meal just down the road on his own farm!
R5M98 TIL that Quebec's provincial pension fund owns nearly 20% of the international circus act Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, founding in Quebec
5Yvr9 TIL CIA Document Reported Adolf Hitler Survived World War II
ZWo TIL that Fred Perry, the last British Wimbledon men’s champion, also won the Table Tennis Championship, the only tennis player to ever do so.