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TIL the Air Heads mystery flavor is just a combo of whatever flavors are left in the factory on a given day. It was a teenager's idea - who wrote about it in a letter to the brand in 1993.

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JYLjB TIL unicode standard classifies symbols in groups called "planes". Three planes are enough to code nearly all written languages both extant and extinct, music, mathemathical, emojis and game symbols, and there are still 10 planes completely available for future use.
e8xJ TIL that Bill Hader worked at a movie theater in college and was fired for telling rude customers how “Titanic” ended
E1ejd TIL about the oldest trees in the world, the oldest one ever found known as Prometheus located in Nevada, which lived for approx 5000 years until it was cut by a graduate student and United States and Forest Service for other research purposes unknowing of the history of the tree.
m45p TIL that there is a Geocache hidden aboard the International Space Station. So far, only one person has found it.
LyLr TIL all copies of the film “Nosferatu” were ordered burned by a court due to a lawsuit from the heirs of Bram Stoker, who said the film was an unauthorized adaption of “Dracula” (it was). However, one copy survived the purge, and the film is recognized today as a masterpiece of horror in film.