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TIL about "snickers pie", considered to be "one of the most unhealthy recipes ever published"

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RlRa TIL The Koch Bros. funded a hand picked climate study they hoped would finally disprove man made climate change. It proved the opposite, with study leader having ‘total turnaround’ on the issue.
KmN6 TIL that Volvo invented most important safety device ‘Three point seat belt’. Volvo could have netted a fortune on patents alone but gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it as free life saving tool than something to profit from.
78Y6Z TIL that there were actually two German Kings called Henry the seventh. When writing about them one is called Henry (VII.) and one Henry VII. In German the former is actually called "Heinrich der Klammersiebte" which translates to "Henry the bracketed seventh".
JY46V TIL in 1964 an icy runway caused a taxiing B-58 bomber to flop over and topple onto its fuel tanks. This ignited 14,000 gallons of blended gasoline and kerosene and barbecued the bomber’s nuclear payload…including a 9-megaton bomb powerful enough to flash fry any exposed human within 20 miles.
woe5M TIL During the world war II, German saboteurs operating against Britain, designed chocolate bar bombs that were intended to be smuggled into Britain with the purpose of assassination.