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TIL About the bulwar lytton bad fiction contest, a contest for cursed comments

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dDVxZ TIL Type A personality theory had early association with the smoking industry, who funded researchers in hopes of proving it was personality that lead to heart disease, not tobacco use.
OjX TIL James May was fired from Autocar magazine for inserting a hidden message into one issue
E1ZWx TIL that for his voice performance of Sauron in the Hobbit films Benedict Cumberbatch spoke his black speech lines backwards, which were then played forwards, to give them a more 'disembodied' feel.
5YpyB TIL that pigeons and doves are the exact same animals.
Z8lGQ TIL Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, produced over 179 adult-humored commercials for Wilkins Coffee from 1957-1961. The commercials followed a formula of one muppet creatively harming the other.