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TIL Taco Bell once released a burrito containing cayenne-flavored Pop-Rocks

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VMXxp TIL Pope Gregory IX condemned the black cat as an incarnation of Satan, and consequently, it was the death warrant for the animal. This worsened the Black Death a century after Gregory's time because the plague was spread by rats which were unchecked in Europe due to the decline of cat numbers.
ZYPQ TIL the last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1956.
yAXa TIL When the First iPod was Presented to Steve Jobs he Dropped it in an Aquarium and used the Air Bubbles to Prove there was Empty Space and it Could be Made Smaller.
QdnX TIL of the Holodomor, an attempted genocide with a death toll surpassing that of the Holocaust. Between 1932-1933 Stalin purposely starved up to 7,000,000 Ukrainians.
NXpaJ TIL: The dollar value of a human life