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TIL all Froot Loops colors are the same flavor

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ORMY TIL: Drowning IRL looks nothing like in the movies, and in fact many parents actually watch their children drown, having no idea that it’s happening.
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5YGpQ TIL that the world’s longest marathon took about 54 years. Heat stopped Shiso Kanakuri during the 1967 Olympics. Ashamed, he went back to Japan without alerting authorities. Sweden then put him on a missing persons list for over half a century before he was found and given the chance to finish.
7rP0Z TIL Anita Hill was not the only accuser who was in DC to testify that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her. The committee had Angela Wright sit in her lawyer's office in DC for 3 days and never called on her.
gMOgX TIL Nike wanted to call their first shoe design 'Aztec', but Addidas threatened to sue since they already had a line called 'Aztec Gold'. The Nike cofounders then decided to change the name to 'Cortez' after the general who "kicked the shit out of the Aztecs".