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TIL Hummus has gotten so popular, tobacco farmers have switched to growing chickpeas to meet demand.

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8e40G TIL a key character in Disney’s 1977 hit ‘The Rescuers,’ Evinrude, was intentionally named after an outboard motor company because he powered a leaf like a boat engine.
MerMK TIL [Stephen] Hawking's words, set to music by Greek composer Vangelis, are to be beamed into space from a European space agency satellite dish in Spain with the aim of reaching the nearest black hole, 1A 0620-00
d8n8E TIL that the first full size radio-operated military drone was developed in 1935 in the form of the de Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee. Originally developed by the Royal Navy for target practice, it could take off and land without human operation and more than 400 were constructed.
j69Yp TIL the Pokémon IP has an uncommon ownership structure as it is jointly owned by three companies: Game Freak, which develops the core video games; Nintendo, which publishes said games for their consoles; and Creature, which manages the trading card game and related merchandise.
kJgjE TIL the McRib is made from bits of pig shoulder which are reconstituted with a binding agent into a larger product. Meat restructuring was developed by the US Army to deliver low-cost meat to troops, and McDonald's took the process as the government doesn't patent their intellectual property.