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TIL that in 1927 Pez candy was created to help people quit cigarettes. In 1948 the dispenser was created to mimic a lighter. It wasn’t until the 50s that it was made into a children’s toy.

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Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.
rRXj4 TIL That 'Sehnsucht' by Rammstein, is the only album sung entirely in German to be certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States.
KYwNQ TIL Vanilla Ice bought the royalties for "Under Pressure" to end the lawsuit over "Ice Ice Baby" which had sampled the bass line.
Lk8m TIL Australia’s outback hosts the world’s only known record of a dinosaur stampede, featuring well over 100 unique sets of footprints.
J1alm TIL when the Doors appeared on the TV show Malibu U, Jim Morrison did not show up for the taping, Robby Krieger's twin brother Ron, stood in for Jim with is back to the audience. Morrison later filmed close ups of himself on top of a building the next day.