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TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

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e0KYk TIL of the "poison squad": a group of young government employees in the early 1900s who, in order to test the safety of common food additives of the time, purposely ate ingredients including formaldehyde (embalming fluid) and borax (laundry detergent). Their work led to food labeling requirements.
XEj6P TIL that the full-size Krackel bar was discontinued in 1997, despite being available as a Hershey Miniature.
4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
wLkk6 TIL Darth Vader only appears onscreen for 33 min 41 sec out of the 6.5 hrs in the original trilogy
E1rMp TIL that Mahna Mahna, the famous Muppets song, was originally written for a 1960s softcore porn film about Swedish sexuality, and first appeared on Sesame Street 50 years ago this week. Mahna Mahna, do doo do do do!