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TIL Hawaiian Punch started off as an ice cream topping

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wGgP TIL that the dog who played Eddie on Frasier was replaced by his own son in Season 9.
jwp TIL that Talmund style Jewish circumcisions involve the Rabbi using his mouth to suck the blood from the penis.
ADKZd TIL Sylvester Stallone signed onto the film Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot based on rumors that Arnold Schwarzenegger was interested in the lead. Schwarzenegger confirmed a rumor that, knowing the script was "really bad", he had publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.
b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.
kJaPW TIL that, contrary to the belief in “German efficiency”, the construction of a much-needed new airport in the country’s capital took 15 years to plan and 14 years to build due to poor planning, massive corruption, and egregious corporate and civil mismanagement