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TIL Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” lists V. Ford as the songwriter so that the royalty checks could be used to run a soup kitchen.

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or58 TIL the risk of terrorism is statistically insignificant. You are far more likely to die slipping in the bathtub, getting struck by lightning, or drowning in the bathtub.
vae8 TIL when the CDC found that having a gun in your home made it more likely that you would be murdered, the Congress, lobbied by the NRA, effectively banned further federal studies of gun violence.
W74YN TIL Black english is considered as a separate dialect called AAVE. It has survived several attempts of elimination from educators before being recognized as a variation of english and having its own grammar
b5la TIL Neil Armstrong would tell unfunny jokes about the moon and follow them with “you woulda had to be there.”
1xoV TIL starting in the 1960s, the American Heart Association advised the public to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for a “healthy heart.” The American Heart Association was founded in part by the makers of Crisco.