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TIL nude means “unclothed” while naked means “unprotected”

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W4W9 TIL out of 1,700 sunscreen products sold in the US which were surveyed by a European Environmental Regulatory agency, over half would be banned from shelves in Europe due to harmful chemicals & ineffective protection
VQN8 TIL In 2005, a virtual pandemic was accidentally simulated in World of Warcraft. It was studied by epidemiologists for it’s “real life conditions”
9EEG TIL although Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” outsold any other book of its time, he didn’t make any profit, instead donating the sales to buy mittens for the troops in the American Revolution
LQAop TIL William Wesley Peters was the son-in-law of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Stalin
1aL07 TIL Ted Cassidy, who played "Lurch" on the 1964 TV show "The Addams Family," put out a record and appeared in a dance number on "Shindig"