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TIL in 2023, the Iowa Pork Producers Assn. launched an ad campaign featuring the Iowa State College football players Myles Purchase, Tyler Moore, Tommy Hamann, and Caleb Bacon. The four men have their backs to the camera, so their jerseys read: "PURCHASE MOORE HAMANN BACON"

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7rJJO TIL: These famous international chocolate brands: Milka (German), Côte d'Or (Belgian), Toblerone (Swiss), Cadbury/Frys/Green & Black's (all British), Freia (Norwegian) and Marabou (Swedish) are all owned by US food giant Mondelez
Ajll TIL that a German explorer/soldier became famous for evading capture by British forces in New Guinea during WWI. Hermann Detzner’s book ‘Four Years Among the Cannibals’ detailed his exploits and remarkable scientific discoveries. He made everything up, and just hid in one place for four years.
4kOXR TIL that US Representatives don't have to live in their district, just their state
5YwNp TIL of Dr. Sharad Dicksheet; he founded The India Project in 1968. Until his death in 2011 he traveled to India each year to perform surgeries on children. To date, The India Project has performed more than 98,000 free corrective surgeries for children and infants who suffer from facial deformities.
loQJ7 TIL about a species of extremophile bacteria that was only ever found in two spacecraft clean rooms, located 4000 km apart. In one of them a Mars lander "Phoenix" was assembled, and the species was given a name after the lander: Tersicoccus phoenicis.