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TIL Smoking one large cigar is equivalent to smoking 15-20 cigarettes

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VBlop TIL that the “White Lighters are bad luck” myth stems from several musicians dying unexpectedly with white lighters in their possession.
BlAy TIL a CT scan on the ancient statue of Buddha revealed a mummified monk.
XQxX TIL Milhouse Van Houten from The Simpsons was named after Richard Milhous Nixon, because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”
Z5ER TIL: Japan didn’t ban child pornography until 1999. Even after 1999, possession of child pornography wasn’t illegal, only production and sale were.
5VAM8 TIL that Mike Love gets a third of the royalties for "Wouldn't It Be Nice" for writing just one line ("Good night baby, sleep tight baby"), while Tony Asher gets only a sixth for writing the rest of the lyrics