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TIL McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli

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LQWMm TIL the NFL formed a committee to falsify information in order to hide brain injuries sustained by their players.
9YGBQ TIL: That on the same day, July 23rd, 1943, both The United States and Nazi Germany officially submitted requests to their respective aircraft manufacturers for bombers capable of crossing the Atlantic ocean.
xVQvg TIL: Yoko Ono was not ~just~ the wife of The Beatles' famed musician John Lennon. She's also a longtime "conceptual artist" in her own right, sometimes making art like "Mend Piece," which includes these instructions for the viewer: "TAKE YOUR FAVORITE CUP. BREAK IT IN MANY PIECES WITH A HAMMER."
grY4A TIL there's another Y2K in 2038, Y2K38, when systems using 32-bit integers in time-sensitive/measured processes will suffer fatal errors unless updated to 64-bit.
1aWgD TIL that ships sent to retrieve dead bodies of the victims of the Titanic disaster found so many bodies that they ran out of embalming supplies. They decided to only retrieve bodies of 1st class passengers due to "the need to visually identify wealthy men to resolve any disputes over large estates."