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TIL two ISIS jihadists purchased “Islam for Dummies” and “The Koran for Dummies” before going to fight in Syria

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m1vOO TIL that the Gummy Bear originated in Germany, where it was created by Hans Riegel, who started the Haribo Company in 1920. In 1922, Riegel invented the Dancing Bear gummy, inspired by bears seen at street markets in Europe. The Gold Bear product, the current gummy standard, was created in 1967.
RMkQ TIL that Ann Landers was responsible for the urban legend of people putting razor blades in children’s halloween candy.
M7k98 TIL the first games in the Pokémon series, Red and Blue, contained 150 Pokémon as a reference to Dunbar's number, the number of relationships a single human being can have and properly maintain.
awEQ9 TIL of a man named Don Gorske, who only eats Big Macs. A friend paid him $5 to eat a Whopper, which he did, and then spent the $5 on more Big Macs.
Wk4VL TIL In 1990, Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ, daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, gave a false testimony which galvanized support for the first Persian Gulf War