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

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4kgwa TIL Alan Menken, the composer who relaunched Disney's fortunes with hit songs, once dreamt of being a singer-songwriter in the Bob Dylan mode and hated that his soundtracks were associated with cartoons for children. His works with Disney later made him win more Oscars than any living person.
Pr9g TIL the city of Wallace, Idaho, to protect itself from proposed interstate expansion, managed to list all of its downtown buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. As a result, the federal government was forced to build, at great expense, an elevated viaduct for I-90 around the city.
VMXAm TIL there is a crocodile named "Gustave" who allegedly killed as many as 300 people
6Eaxm TIL humans learned to speak, grew bigger brains and evolved smaller faces by figuring out how to cook and chew their food less
awyQL TIL: The three horizontal black lines on the side of a school bus are there for emergency responders. In an emergency where the doors and windows can't be opened and they need to cut into the bus, the lines show the positions of the floor boards, the bottom of the seats, and the top of the seats.