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TIL that in 1956, Elvis Presley got his Polio vaccine in front of the press. As an influential figure, this act helped raise vaccine rates from 75% to 90%

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kaem TIL the oldest living tree is a Norway Spruce in Sweden which is approximately 9550 years old. This would make it around 3000 years older than the invention of writing.
rRA8M TIL that the box office flop "Idiocracy" (2006) was released in as few theaters as possible by 20th Century Fox so as to not offend the negatively portrayed advertisers in the movie. Fox then planned, and succeeded, in recuperating its budget by purposefully making the movie garner a cult following
JKjV TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
X07vE TIL about anterograde amnesia. People with this condition completely forget very recent events, yet most of them can learn and retain new skills - even though they forget every day that they had learned those skills yesterday.
BrpQe TIL that Queen Victoria was addicted to cocaine infused chewing gum. She was even believed to have shared some with a young Winston Churchill.