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TIL: The last major motion picture to receive a VHS release was David Cronenberg's 'A History of Violence'

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awNM TIL that Royal Navy Able Seacat, Simon (a real cat), was awarded medals for raising morale and killing rats aboard a navy ship
E18do TIL according to data from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Americans 55 years and older are now more likely to be regular cannabis consumers than middle- and high school-aged teenagers.
VMvRZ TIL the word "colonel" is pronounced "kernel"because the French wanted to have the "R" sound in the word, instead of the two "L" sounds.
wEGM TIL In 1995, current US House Speaker John Boehner was caught handing out cheques from the tobacco lobby on the floor of the House of Representatives just before a vote on cutting tobacco subsidies.
wL098 TIL about Julia Pastrana, a Mexican woman who was toured around the world as "the bear woman". When she died in childbirth in 1860 her husband had her embalmed and continued touring. Her remains ended up in the basement of the University of Oslo. In 2013 she was finally laid to rest in Mexico.