Post * MBA8 — Curious Curator

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TIL the company that makes “Spam” meat refers to internet spamming as “unwanted emails” instead of spam.

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Oo4Y6 TIL that Coca-Cola was originally made to cure addiction

NVle TIL A Chinese farmer developed a way to make pears grow from the tree in the shape of little baby Buddhas.

x6jW7 TIL in the 1893 case of Nix v. Hedden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, for purposes of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually used as vegetables since they're normally served with dinner and not dessert.

jNJ5M TIL the Jamestown settlers (first permanent English colony in America) were cannibals and "were clearly interested in cheek meat, muscles of the face, tongue, and brain."

xVlW7 TIL that during WWII, the large crosswelded metal beams that covered the beaches of Normandy on D-day are called Hemmbalken, and were supposed to wreck landing craft that were expected to attack during high tide. The Allies instead charged while exposed during low tide.