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TIL that following “Dunk-a-roos” being discontinued in the United States in 2012, General Mills in 2016 encouraged Canadians traveling to the United States to bring the snack to Americans who wanted it in a campaign called “Smugglaroos”, as the product still remains in production in Canada

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rk5o TIL there was a made-for-TV Gilligan’s Island movie featuring the Harlem Globetrotters playing a team of robots
PaYe TIL: There is a gang of women in India that go around beating up abusive husbands and fighting to stop child marriages.
XrMj TIL the Allied operation to conceal the D-Day Invasion involved fake radio traffic, double agents, an Australian actor, and fake invasion plans for Calais, Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. It was so effective Hitler believed the real invasion hadn’t begun until seven weeks after D-Day.
DEDV TIL that in a 2009 paper, researchers found that the widespread introduction of television across India was associated with decreased acceptability of domestic violence against women, increases in women’s autonomy and an overall decrease in the country’s fertility rate.
yVOmp TIL Corn was genetically engineered by farmers thousands of years ago