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TIL that in the US there is a "French Fry Certification Pin", created in 2024, there has only been 1 person who has been awarded it in it's history

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0dX8y TIL that Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice actor who did Tony The Tiger and sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and Peanuts's "No Dogs Allowed", also recorded a cover of Kermit the Frog's theme song, "(It's Not Easy) Bein' Green".
R7vJ1 TIL that the U.S. Surgeon General found that smoking caused more than 20 million premature deaths in the United States between 1965 and 2014
VMQrp TIL that in addition to temperature control, spacesuits are white so astronauts are easier to spot against the darkness of space
mvjR TIL the man who sang, “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch”, also voiced Tony the Tiger for more than 5 decades.
XalP TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions