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TIL Hawaiian Punch started off as an ice cream topping

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6EoXY TIL that in 1935 a recently caught tiger shark at a Sydney aquarium regurgitated a human arm. The police were able to identify the owner of the arm and launch a murder investigation.
D5mY TIL that many countries have savings plans that amount to a “no-lose lottery”; interest is a bit lower, but large prizes are given out periodically. It is very successful at getting people to save their money, but is often illegal in N. America due to government monopolies on running lotteries.
Mek0a TIL of GRB 080319B, a gamma ray burst that occurred 7.5 BILLION years ago (Long before our solar system was born). In March of 2008 this burst landed a direct hit on Earth.
x9R5 TIL in 1991 a fake Russian tv program on Leningrad tv convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad communist party had to declare that"Lenin could not have been a mushroom" because “a mammal can not be a plant”
d8VZ8 TIL that the reason many evangelicals support Israel is because they believe that the Jewish people must control the country to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy and begin the end of times