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TIL that Canola is actually a contraction of "Canadian Oil, Low Acid"

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VMoA8 TIL NASA conducted a series of arduous tests on 11 deaf men to study the impact of motion sickness on astronauts after discovering that people who became deaf as a result of spinal meningitis didn’t suffer from motion sickness because of the impact of the illness on their inner ear physiology
50G8 TIL that in America in 1960, 30% of all brides gave birth within 8.5 months of their wedding
OnPX TIL That Charlie Chaplin was payed $10,000 a week in 1915.
6kbZ TIL an undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a Mosque in Irvine, Calif., stirred the pot so much to entrap other Muslims to engage in “violent jihad” that he was reported to law enforcement himself by the Mosque.
rRPEe TIL that after Puyi, the last Emperor of China, was dethroned, he worked as a street cleaner and would visit the Forbidden Palace as a tourist and point out the various objects on display that he used to own as Emperor.