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TIL Flamin Hot Cheetos was invented by hotshot snack food professionals to compete with spicy snacks sold in the Midwest

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nnx9 TIL that those plane trails in the sky are caused by condensation, and there’s a conspiracy theory that believes they are chemicals sprayed by the government.
VMRjG TIL that by 1943 the US Navy was larger than the combined fleets of the rest of the world, and by 1945 comprised 70% of the ships larger than 1000 tons.
nMnW TIL that upon creating the world’s first machine gun, Dr. Richard J. Gatling wrote that he did so “to reduce the size of armies, to reduce the number of deaths by combat, and to show how futile war is.”
R5op4 TIL lava scabers exist naturally, not just as a human bred morph
E1xew TIL the worlds first ever half-hour, completely computer-animated TV series was the Canadian show ReBoot.