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TIL that if Skittles fail to make the grade they are fed to cattle as a cheap corn substitute.

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xVlg0 TIL that the instant noodle was invented during a period of food shortages in Japan following WWII. After the Japanese health ministry supplied the population with wheat flour and asked them to make bread, Momofuku Ando instead decided on making noodles (which were more familiar) that would last.
BgomW TIL that on March 18, 1919, the entire city of New Orleans stayed up the all night playing loud jazz music at every bar and household for fear that a serial killer would murder thousands of people based on a letter written to the local newspaper.
jEbQ TIL that a roman poet wrote such an NSFW poem, that it was not publicly translated until the late twentieth century.
e0W85 TIL Aeschylus died by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile
WEdB TIL Chicago has almost as many homicides as the whole of the UK - but the population of Chicago is only that of Manchester.