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TIL Prior to 1970 most Pistachios were dyed red!

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1lK7 TIL that a man is serving a 20-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot with a legally registered firearm to protect his wife and daughters.
BgBbL TIL that the remains of the Vietnam War’s representative at America’s Tomb of the Unknown were finally identified 14 years after he was first entombed.
e0EO5 TIL, A man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide with a gun to his head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other damage.
R5VP6 TIL that in “once upon a studio”. When Mickey speaks to a portrait of Walt Disney, playing in the background was Disney's favorite song: "Feed the Birds”. The producers also got Richard Sherman to record a new version for the film, using the same piano and in the same old office of Walt Disney.
kO68g TIL the phrase 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' originated in Manhattan where rooms were built on top of one another and when a neighbour took a shoe off and dropped it, you inevitably heard the other one drop as well, hence the phrase meant to await something inevitable which was to happen.