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TIL: the word “synonym” has a synonym and it’s “Poecilonym”
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TIL from the 1920's to the 1950's cigarette companies routinely paid doctors to endorse and prescribe their brand of cigarettes to patients, falsely claiming them as a "healthy" alternative to other brands. This was done to cover up increasing evidence of the harm done by smoking.
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TIL scientists prove SOAP BUBBLES can be used to pollinate fruit trees, which could help compensate for the dramatic declines in global bee populations
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TIL The two “M’s” in M&Ms represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr. (son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey’s Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie).
AlK7
Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat, which were fed to the lions
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TIL that there are 3 borders between U.S. states over which there are ongoing disputes