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TIL prior to the 1970’s, South Africa sold a ‘jawbreaker’ like candy called “Niggerballs”.

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R9Wl TIL the world’s oldest bra was found by archaeologists in a Vienna castle, and the bra was carbon dated at 600 years. That is perplexing because the modern bra is thought to have been invented only about 100 years ago and history books say that bras came after the corset.
5YJV9 TIL H.G. Wells' The Time Machine was published in 1895 and generally credited for popularizing of time travel. It led to 3 films, 2 TV series, multiple comics, and indirectly inspired many works of fiction using time travel as its vehicle.
P7GE TIL that Fox originally wanted to make Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” into an animated series, but Groening didn’t want to lose his rights to it, so he said he had “this other family, called the Simpsons,” and then he proceeded to draw figures on a napkin that he made up on the spot.
R5rej TIL it was Avi Arad's idea to make Stan Lee cameos a tradition, but Sam Raimi originally didn't want Lee to cameo in Spider-Man, saying, "imagine you’re a minor director in England doing Macbeth and you’re told, 'Put the writer in the play.' It sounds absurd."
ORZ4 TIL of Begum Samru (1753-1836), an Indian dancing girl who became the wealthy ruler of her own small principality. She led her troops into battle, and was so successful that many believed that she had supernatural powers. After baptism, Samru became India’s only Catholic ruler.