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TIL crisps (potato chips) are labelled “ready salted” because old-fashioned crisps came with a little bag of salt, which the consumer could choose whether or not to use.

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kYW7 TIL That only one victim of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Frank Gusenberg, was still alive when police arrived on the scene. When questioned by the police about the shooting, despite reportedly having fourteen bullets in his body, his only response was “nobody shot me”.
eo9L TIL in 1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically “proving” that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
aw4nA TIL King C. Gillette, creator of Gillette Razors, was a Utopian Socialist and co-authored a book with Upton Sinclair.
0w4nv TIL that the British anthem was derived from a French song composed in the 17th century to celebrate the healing of Louis XIV's anal fistula.
oRvwE TIL Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc on the population of frogs, emasculating 75% of makes, and turning 1/10 into females.