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TIL almost all Mayo brands (even Duke's) have Soybean Oil as the number one ingredient

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LkAgZ TIL Socrates left no written work, and all we know about him is what other people (specifically Plato) wrote about him
jROX TIL In 1969, the Woodstock concert was filmed for a documentary by a group of recent graduates from the NYU film school. A 26-year-old assistant director watched the show from a raised platform, never able to get away for food or to use the bathroom for three days. He was Martin Scorcese.
VBM5Q TIL about megaesophagus, a disorder in dogs that often necessitates them eating from a high chair.
BrMoL TIL George Lucas originally wanted to make an updated Flash Gordon movie, but no one took him seriously and he couldn't obtain the rights, so he made Star Wars instead.
W7JLo TIL that Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in Space, was so inspired by Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura on Stark Trek that she began every shift of her 1992 Shuttle mission by radioing "Hailing Frequencies Open" as a tribute to the actress and her character.