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TIL Sour Patch Kids are called Very Bad Kids in France and were originally called Mars Men.

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e6Kk TIL: A “Blue Moon” does Not refer to the second full moon of a month, but the fourth full moon of a season. The common misconception became popular in the 1940s.
PJ1e TIL the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating for a movie based on a video game is 44%, for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
nePYB TIL the term "out of the blue" originates from lightning strikes out of the clear blue sky.
6XBm TIL that the Canadian Football League has existed since 1909, and for the first three a university team beat three professionals to get the championship.
voWR TIL Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed bank during the 28 month Siege of Leningrad when it couldn’t be evacuated. 9 scientists starved, surrounded by tons of crops and fruit, refusing to destroy ‘the future of Russia’.