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TIL that Grapple is simply just an apple soaked in Methyl Anthranilate (artifical grape flavoring).

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mxARM TIL Dr Pepper Was Once a Warm Drink
gpA8 TIL That During Operation Desert Storm, an F-15E Successfully targeted and dropped an air-to-ground bomb on a helicopter.
7rpYr TIL One of America's first patent trolls was George Selden, who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895, and proceeded to sue anyone else who attempted to produce one even while he never manufactured a car himself.
QJ0rM TIL of Edward Pulaski, a firefighter who in 1910 saved the lives of most of his forty-five man crew by leading them into an abandoned mine shaft when they were surrounded by a wildfire, and then personally stopping the fire from following them despite being badly burned.
DQEor TIL in 1975, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II dismissed the Australian Prime Minister from office