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TIL Activia was sued for falsely claiming to be a health food.

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VBkA8 TIL of Georg Elser who spent a year planning the elaborate assassination of Hitler by hollowing out a pillar in a hall where he would speak and filling it with time bombs. Hitler left 13 minutes before the bombs went off; his flight was cancelled due to fog, so he started early to get a train.
mpxM TIL that for 15 years, the Phoebus Cartel planned the obsolescence of light bulbs by limiting them to 1000 hours usage to make consumers buy more and fined manufacturers whose lightbulbs lasted longer than this.
M7J8A TIL there are no records of a panda having killed a human.
R58aQ TIL that my home state of WI boasts 1 of only 11 National Park Trails in the US. The Ice Age Trail spans 1,200 miles and covers the entire state.
01mj TIL Godzilla spends around 8 minutes in the movie created for him in 2014