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TIL PEZ Candy was invented in Vienna, Austria by Eduard Haas III as an alternative to smoking.

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P1Agn TIL that the American Beautyberry fruit is food for more than 40 species of songbirds and eaten by armadillo, foxes, opossum, raccoon, squirrels and white tailed deer (eat fruit and leaves) in addition to being used as medicine by Native American tribes and as mosquito repellent by early farmers.
lpE1 TIL that North Korea wanted to be paid in wheat in exchange for allowing a 7'8.5" tall player to play in the NBA.
nWoAG TIL that Chi-Chi's products are the remnants of what used to be a Tex-Mex restaurant chain. The only Chi-Chi's restaurant left is in Vienna.
NX4ZQ TIL Drake's Plate - a brass plaque initially believed to be inscribed & left by Sir Francis Drake at the site of his CA landfall & considered CA's greatest historic treasure at the time of its "discovery" - was a prank on historians by their peers that escalated out of control (despite many clues)
Gln1 TIL there is a huge military training complex in California that consists of 11 fake towns, real iraqi civilians, oh and it allows spectators.