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TIL Sour Patch Kids were originally called Mars Men, but the name changed in 1985 to capitalize on the popularity of Cabbage Patch Kids.

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xVMDw TIL: Glasgow's Duke of Wellington statue was allowed to keep a traffic cone on his head by the local council because every time they removed it over the last 30 years a new one would appear within days costing them £10,000 a year to remove them.
ZpDaR TIL about Mike Malloy. Known as “Iron Mike”, “Rasputin of the Bronx”, or simply “Mike the Durable”, he survived multiple attempts on his life by "acquaintances" to collect insurance money. They ultimately succeeded in killing him, but were convicted of their crimes.
0w87j TIL Christopher Lee was a major Tolkien fan, reading the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy once a year for the majority of his life. He was the only member of the movie cast to have met Tolkien.
rRoZW TIL The Well Yes But Actually No meme comes from a misquoted line from the movie So You Want to Be a Pirate. The actual line said in the scene pictured by the meme is "good guess, but actually no" which is often heard as "well yes, but actually no" due to pronunciation.
awxaN TIL NBC cancelled the scifi sitcom "ALF" in 1990 to make room for the Will Smith sitcom "Fresh Prince of Bel Air", leaving the show on a cliffhanger that never got resolved.