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TIL That the American Fat Salvage Committee was created to urge housewives to save all the excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives during World War II.

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5YgPR TIL women using oral contraceptives blink 32% more often than other women on average for unknown reasons.
grBGW TIL In 2002 German actor Günther Kaufmann confessed that he had fallen on his accountant and accidentally suffocated the man to death with his 260-pound body. But in 2005 it was discovered that Kaufmann was innocent and had confessed to protect his dying wife who had murdered the man.
yQv6M TIL Cotton in pill bottles serves no purpose today (actually recommended to remove), but is a continued practice because consumers got used it. It was first inserted by Bayer in the early 1900s so their powdery pills wouldn’t break.
7pRr TIL That a Romanian gypsy is the youngest grandmother in the world at age 23. She had her daughter when she was 12 and in turn her daughter had her first child at 11.
KYDgR TIL A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn’t recognize the phone number.