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TIL According to the first item on its list of ingredients, Goldfish snack crackers are made with “smiles.”

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R7jZ1 TIL that it is likely that life could only form on Exoplanet that are like our Earth and are orbiting stars like our Sun. And we almost have the technology to detect them.
X6QQ TIL following the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, rope sales in hardware stores skyrocketed.
pgKQ TIL Kirk Douglas decided to get blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo credited for Spartacus when Kubrick suggested that his own name be used. Douglas found Kubrick’s eagerness to take credit for Trumbo’s work revolting.
O9A7 TIL when Dr. Jonas Salk (discoverer and developer of the first polio vaccine) was asked who owned the patent he replied “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Forbes calculated the vaccine to be “worth” 7 billion dollars. Happy 100th birthday you magnificent bastard.
NQOE TIL Byron White was a former star football player who became a Supreme Court Justice. He ruled in the case of Runyon v. McCrary in which a black student was rejected by a private school. That student, Michael McCrary would later become a NFL Linebacker and won the Byron White NFL Award in 2000.