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TIL How Smoking Increased When TV/Broadcast Advertising of Cigarettes Was Banned

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woV7J TIL that Abraham Lincoln nearly joined the Donner-Reed Party on their disastrous journey. It was only because of his wife's disapproval that he did not go with his good friend James Reed.
QJ1LE TIL Cooking salty/marinated foods in aluminum foil can add a hazardous amount of aluminum content into the food.
g8D7 TIL the vast majority of Earth’s gold and platinum is found in its core. The reason these elements are so rare on the surface is because they mostly sunk to the core when the planet was molten.
N78W1 TIL the 1910s and 1920s are the only two decades when the median center of U.S. population moved east, instead of west.
GYPj1 TIL that in WWII, spam, the canned meatloaf, was so vital and ubiquitous, that Uncle Sam became Uncle Spam.