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TIL Celery makes some People's tongues numb

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pmGG TIL in 1999, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Bob Odenkirk all appeared in the television show “3rd Rock from the Sun.”
9wvl7 TIL the term 'pitch black' refers to pitch, a sticky black substance that is obtained from the distillation of wood tar or petroleum.
6EVXX TIL that Singapore Airlines has a "Corpse Cupboard", a cupboad used to store the body of anyone that dies on one of their flights.
8e5XX TIL the last poem in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a parody of a famous poem in which the speaker dies for the unrequited love of a girl named Alice. Carroll obliterated the resemblance between his poem and the original by removing the first stanza when he added the poem to his children's book
RJwj TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.