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TIL Rachel Corrie, an American activist, was crushed to death by Israeli Defense Forces while trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes.

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jDZa TIL that Fruit Roll-Ups, in compliance with a false advertising suit, cannot display fruit imagery on their packages if the flavor doesn’t actually contain that fruit.
9wJ6B TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability, & cost of production.
DvJe TIL that there is a company that comes up with brand names, and came up with ‘BlackBerry’, 'PowerBook’, and 'Pentium’
690jZ TIL that once during a party at his mansion in New Orleans, Nick Cage revealed his two-headed snake, Harvey, after Harvey Dent. Among the crowd in attendance was Werner Herzog who insisted the snake be in his next film. Cage replied “No, I’m not putting it into the movie because this is personal.”
ADP74 TIL that scientists successfully cloned an extinct goat back to life, but it died very shortly due to breathing problems.