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TIL Chilly Bang! Bang! was a kids' juice in a water pistol. Kids would put the barrel in their mouths and pull the trigger to drink it. It was pulled from store shelves.

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kOVbm TIL the Native American greeting of "How" in many Westerns was a real greeting used by speakers of Lakota-Sioux. The word was used only between men.
VMndD TIL about "False uniqueness bias," which refers to people underestimating the number of others who share their positive traits ("unlike most people, I exercise") and overestimating the number of people who share their negative traits ("everybody smokes").
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