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TIL there are only six ingredients in Spam: ham, salt, water, sugar, sodium nitrite and potato starch

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BjPd TIL of Ricky Ray Rector who, after murdering a man in a nightclub, agreed to turn himself in. Instead, he shot the negotiating officer in the back, killing him. He then attempted suicide but failed, effectively lobotomizing himself. In prison he saved part of his last meal for “after the execution”
OKZ6 TIL Lay’s WOW chips caused anal leakage in some customers; and Lays were required to put Warnings on their labels because of this.
yZlM TIL that legendary actor Aiden Gillen (The Dark Knight Rises, Game of Thrones) was nominated for the British Academy Television Award, the British Independent Film Award and a Tony Award, and has won two Irish Film & Television Awards.
Z8WZD TIL Italic type was named that because it was designed in Italy
YMbP TIL there was a magazine called Continuum that promoted AIDS denialism that went out of print because both of the editors died of AIDS