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TIL that movie popcorn costs more per ounce than Filet Mignon

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5YE0p TIL of Musical Roads, which are highway rumble strips that sound like music when you drive over them. First created in Denmark, they are now found all over the world. One stretch of road in California plays the William Tell Overture.
oBvrE TIL Conan the barbarian is part of the Marvel comics universe and could potentionally be part of the cinematic universe, his world was created when Atlantis sunk and was later forgotton when Thor and Hercules arrived on earth
XQv8 TIL John H. Kellog, the father of Kellogs, devoted his life to preventing masturbation. He used acid to remove the clitoris and hoped that feeding children plain cereal every morning would help to combat the urges of “self-abuse”
QJkkL TIL of Drapetomania, a pseudo-scientific mental illness that suggested slaves were mentally ill for running away from their slave owners, and was supposedly caused by slave owners being too friendly with slaves, and "treating them as equals".
xVPjk TIL that female slaves in the American South would chew on cotton root to abort a pregnancy, decreasing the production of more slave children