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TIL the Type A/B Personality Theory was invented by the cigarette industry in the 1950's to prove coronary heart disease and cancer were risks related to high-stress personality types instead of tobacco use.

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X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
j69JN TIL that nine year old John Clem enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War, shot a Confederate Colonel and was promoted to Sergeant by they age of 12, and retired at the rank of Major General in 1915.
QJZ8a TIL that Photorhabdus is a strain of bacteria that lives inside nematodes. It works in symbiosis to kill host insects that nematodes target within 48 hours then produce antibiotics to disinfect the carcass.
78elr TIL that three states did not vote for George Washington for president in the first US presidential election in 1789 - New York's legislature did not choose electors on time, and North Carolina and Rhode Island had not ratified the constitution yet.
QZpd TIL that there is French territory just off 23 km off the Coast of Newfoundland, Canada. These islands have a population of 6000 and use the Euro.