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Today I learned that Velveeta was the first cheese product to gain the American Medical Association's seal of approval

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vPm5x TIL Vaseline inventor, Robert Chesebrough, was convinced of its health benefits to the extent that he consumed a daily spoonful, When he fell ill with pleurisy in his 50s, he had himself entirely coated in Vaseline by his nurse, which he believed led to his recovery, His long life spanned 96 yrs.
oBd6L TIL Land Mines blow up as soon as they're stepped on, they don't wait for the person to get off as often seen in movies/TV.
yVKAe TIL Shel Silverstein wrote all the songs on Dr. Hook's album Sloppy Seconds
wLGnY TIL that when wooly mammoths went extinct, their territorial grassland was replaced with birch forests. This ushered in an age of forest fires so significant that it may have changed the global climate.
6ERk7 TIL Winston Churchill was half American. His mother, Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York, later Lady Randolph Churchill, was a noted beauty of her day