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TIL Stan Durwood, former president of AMC theaters, demanded until his dying day that Snickers be sold at all theaters for 45 cents so when you went to the theaters you could always afford some candy

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Legp TIL Michigan State University will identify any insect, arthropod, plant, or weed for free if you send a picture of the specimen via email.
a8Oyb TIL George McGovern accidentally bombed an Austrian farm during WWII. He was haunted for 40 years until after a TV interview, when the farmer called the station to reassure him that he and his family got out in time and that it was worth it if it helped bring down Hitler in any way.
OGMZR TIL the Pinkerton Detective Agency never went out of business and is still in operation today, now, as a division of Securitas.
R7nB9 TIL that the Communist Control Act of 1954, which criminalizes membership in the Communist Party, is still in full force and effect in the United States (however, no administration has tried to enforce it)
d8bpE TIL that actress Jan Stirling had airfare to fly to the US but found lingerie she liked, used the last of her money to buy it, trading in the airfare for a ticket on a steamship. Midway thru the voyage she learned that the airship she had been booked on, the Hindenburg, had been destroyed in a fire.