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TIL that Jelly Belly makes "Sport Beans" designed to provide physical energy and enhance athletic performance. They contain carbohydrates, electrolytes and vitamins. "Extreme Sport Beans" include the additional boost of caffeine.

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kJAVW TIL about Phantasmagoria, a French pre-cinema horror shadow show where audiences were entertained with ghost tales, demon myths, and other stories to scare them by using shadows projected on a wall, mood lighting, and auto-suggestive narration.
Ooa0R TIL that when Jeff Hilger first started marketing the Koala Bear Kare Baby Changing Station in the 80's most businesses saw no need for it. It wasnt until after he started passing out fliers of a woman changing her baby's diaper on a dirty bathroom floor that his idea became a huge success.
RE1 TIL YouTube acknowledges the first rickroll as an important event in its history
b6PE7 TIL that Cologne's was originally called Oppidum Ubiorum by the Romans and got it's current name from the later name 'Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium', named after the wife of Emperor Claudius since she was born there.
p8aQb TIL that botanists in Kew Gardens (UK) bought a £1.29 bag of supermarket porcini mushrooms sourced from China and found three species of mushroom previously unknown to science.