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TIL Sriracha sauce has never been advertised. The company prefers to let the sauce’s legend spread by word of mouth.

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kJZB5 TIL the motte and bailey fallacy: a deceptive argument where someone initially presents a controversial claim (the "bailey"), but when challenged, switches to a more easily defensible, seemingly similar claim (the "motte"), then reasserts the original, controversial claim as if proven
b6kYp TIL that George Halas Jr. was the heir to the Chicago Bears until dying of a heart attack. During a lawsuit over the ownership to the NFL team, his body was exhumed. The coroner found that Halas's internal organs had been replaced with sawdust. His sister, Virginia Halas McCaskey, became team owner.
b6YL4 TIL The way vehicle environmental regulations are calculated is causing new trucks to be built larger over time
5V7e8 TIL 4Kids Entertainment censored Sonic X in United States!
XEXK6 TIL That Benjamin Rush, A Founding Father and Physician Believed That Blackness Was "A Disease" And Was "Curable". He Co-Authored This Paper, Based On A Black Man Who Turned White. (He had Vitiligo)