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TIL that M&Ms are the official candy of The White House.

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j6dLj TIL Amos Lunt, the San Quentin hangman, claimed he was being tormented by the ghosts of those he executed. He eventually had to be committed to an asylum
4XbpN TIL the worlds biggest strawberry weighed 250g, with an approximate height of 8cm, length of 12cm, and circumference of 25 to 30cm. Koji Nakao from Fukuoka, Japan, holds the Guinness World Record.
d8NEr TIL that the Japanese, Korean and Chinese words for "comics" are all derivatives of the Chinese term "manhua," which means "impromptu sketches."
QJyrE TIL of the Cannonball Run, an unsanctioned coast to coast race held by Car and Driver magazine in the 1970s protesting speed limits. Cars would average 100 MPH, barreling across America in as little as two days.
rRZbe TIL that in the early 1940s a Mexican scientist named Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena created a color television system some considered better than any American system at the time. His work made it possible in the 1970s for NASA to transmit color photos of Jupiter from the Voyager satellite.