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TIL that Hormel Foods keeps a file of hatemail they've received from American soldiers who had to eat the notorious food product while at war overseas

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L4ed TIL that in the mid-1950s, the US government secretly tested chemical weapons on the citizens of St Louis.
NQ81 TIL Ray Bradbury originally titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but he & editors found the name boring so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature book paper burnt at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold, burnt a book, and reported that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”
j6gDM TIL, there's a tiny hole in your eyes that drains tears to your nose, causing a runny nose when you cry.
g8e9 TIL there were two versions of the Dennis the Menace comic, released at the same time, on different sides of the atlantic, by different authors, with no plagiarism involved.
x88o TIL we experience withdrawal symptoms at the end of a love affair that mirror chemical addiction