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TIL of Butterball's turkey cooking hotline. Every year they receive 10,000+ (panicked?) calls around Thanksgiving from people looking for tips on how to cook their turkey

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JQ74 TIL the guy from the “Tips Fedora” / “M'lady” meme played Pugsley Addams in the “Addams Family Reunion” movie.
QLaX TIL that when siamese twin Daisy Hilton died, her sister Violet remained alive and attached to her for several days before they were both found dead.
a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
P1e7V TIL: Irish playwright Brendan Behan wrote a song called 'the laughing boy' about Irish revolutionary Michael Collins. Later it was translated into Greek and became the unofficial anthem against the military junta.
oPWA TIL McDonald’s is one of the leading contributors to deforestation in the Amazon and uses questionable tactics to do so.