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TIL second-hand incense smoke can be as dangerous, or worst, as cigarette smoke.

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8awba TIL About Buffalo City, NC. The once tight knit logging boomtown and “moonshine capital” was visited by FDR on a trip to Roanoke. Built in the middle of nowhere, they relied on alcohol-tourism during the 1920s & 30s, “mysteriously” turning ghost town after prohibition ended.
Ve6Z TIL that because Ken Jennings is a practicing Mormon, he tithes his earnings on “Jeopardy!” to the Church of Latter Day Saints. This means that his church received approximately $250,000 for his record 74-game winning streak alone.
OoQrR TIL a banana tree is not really a tree, but a perennial herb, a distant cousin of ginger. Bananas are technically berries.
OoMPX TIL that after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of hair stylists and alpaca farmers donated over 19 warehouses worth of cut hair to absorb the spilled oil.
Lne0 TIL in Finland, the word ‘kalsarikännit’ means to get drunk at home, alone, in your underwear.