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TIL red M&Ms were not sold for 10 years over concerns that red food dye was a carcinogen

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N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.
1anMO TIL that in 1945, at the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, the USSR requested that all 15 Soviet Republics be made members of the UN to better represent the people of the east. The US countered this by requesting that all 50 US states be made members of the UN.
pYRd4 TIL Australian Shepherds aren’t from Australia!
jNBoE TIL that on December 16, 1965, NASA received a prank transmission from two astronauts: "We have an object, probably in polar orbit... I see a command Module and and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." They then started playing, "Jingle Bells".
j6xOQ TIL voice actor Frank Welker (Fred on Scooby Doo, Nibbler on Futurama) is the third-highest-grossing actor of all time