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TIL: Despite the widely-held belief that ICEE created the Blue Raspberry flavor in the early 1970's, there's record of the Gold Medal company, which made Sno-Kones, using the flavor as early as 1958 for their cotton candy.

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woM8P TIL in 1048 Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia seduced his son Ningling Ge's wife, lady Muoyi & conferred upon her a title of Empress. Then after he was told to kill his dad, Ge broke into his father's chambers but only managed to cut off his nose. However, his dad succumbed to the wounds 2 days later.
WORA TIL President James K. Polk is nicknamed by some historians “the least known consequential president.” He promised to serve just one term, and he achieved ALL of the agenda he set at the beginning of his term.
Lk6e0 TIL: In 1969 24 journalists came together to write the worst novel they could come up with to make fun of US’s vulgar and declining literary culture. That hoax book became a bestseller the same year.
PYQkG TIL in medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to queen would be given the title of an "advisor," so as to not imply that the king had more than one queen or was unfaithful.
pYebQ TIL that Kate Bush is generally regarded as the first ever singer to use a wireless radio microphone on stage, made out of a wire clothes hanger, which allowed her to incorporate extensive dance routines into her live shows.