Post * 4kRxw — Curious Curator

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TIL that mystery flavor candies are made whenever the factory switches to a different flavor. They don’t clean the lines when they switch so two flavors mix together. This avoids downtime and wastes product.

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eZp6 TIL that Billy Mays died of high blood pressure resulting from cocaine use, not from a head injury caused by falling luggage.

XaD6 TIL that, in his younger years, John Lennon beat women. “ I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically – any woman. I was a hitter.”

ABng TIL, at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Jesse Owens (3 Golds already in hand) was one failed jump away from not even qualifying for the Long Jump Final. German competitor, Luz Long, placed a white towel 1 foot from the plate & told Jesse to ‘take off from there.’

XngQ TIL the DJ “scratch” was accidentally created when Grand Wizard held a spinning record in place so he could hear his mom, who was yelling at him.

DpwV TIL in 2002, a mid-air collision between a passenger jet and cargo jet took the lives of all 71 people aboard both planes. A man whose family was killed in the collision later stabbed to death the Air Traffic Controller that was on duty at the time of the collision.