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TIL Hershey trademarked the color orange.

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8e8WL TIL the term care package comes from an acronym; CARE, meaning the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe which sent packages of emergency supplies to European communities following WWII
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D1EGr TIL that Hitler's dentist, Hugo Johannes Blaschke, who held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer, studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
8aRML TIL of Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40.