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TIL The first hot cocoa mix (Swiss Miss) was invented to use up excess inventory of coffee creamer created for the Korean War.

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a88PA TIL about The Shootout on Ash Street - That Time Army Rangers Got in a Gunfight with the Crips Street Gang
b5np TIL that there is a business labyrinth in a limestone deposit in Kansas City.
RKvj TIL of Blue Peacock, a 10 kiloton nuclear landmine designed to be installed in the north german plane. The area was too cold for the mine’s electronics to reliably function, so it was proposed to be heated by chickens.
rbG0 TIL Lagunitas was temporarily shut down in 2005 because of weed - Story goes the CMO lit a “baton-sized” joint at a company party, and was immediately handcuffed by an undercover agent. Lagunitas later launched “Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale” and is now 1 of the US’ biggest craft breweries.
KOX9B TIL that it is theoretically possible to mine new Bitcoins by hand with pencil and paper. Technology is a little bit faster, though - about a quintillion times.