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TIL that Ketchup used to be made without tomatoes.

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rPgW TIL Lawrence Joseph Bader, a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio, disappeared on a fishing trip on Lake Erie in 1957. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska, as a local TV personality, “Fritz” Johnson.