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TIL if a contestant on The Great British Baking Show has a meltdown, hosts Sue and Mel will start swearing profusely on camera so the BBC can't use the footage

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d8R7d TIL that chocolate chip cookies were an accident, created by Ruth Wakefield when her inn ran out of baker’s chocolate in 1937, so she had to supplement her cookies with regular chocolate that didn’t melt in the oven.
WkYbd TIL that Frederic Pryor [Bridge of Spies] was never consulted by producers about his experiences in the 1962 prisoner exchange and went to see the movie with his family. Afterwards, when pressed by other moviegoers why he thought the movie was ‘good but inaccurate’ he responded “I’m Frederic Pryor”
GYglN TIL Alexander Graham Bell wanted to abolish sign language and believed deaf people to be inferior. He proposed many ideas to breed a more “noble man” and reduce the intermarrying of the “dead and dumb”.
wLa5W TIL About Scott Loxley a member of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion, a Star Wars costuming/charitable fundraising organization, who walked across Australia in full Stormtrooper armor in order to raise almost $100 000 for charity.
6OY TIL of the Edelweißpiraten. They engaged in hiking and camping trips, offered German adolescents an opportunity for sexual experimentation with the opposite sex and were antagonistic to the Hitler Youth.