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TIL The man behind the Flamin’ Hot brand Cheetos was a janitor at Frito-Lay

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e09E TIL that babies eyes can change color past 9 months and sometime up to 3 years of age.
gebD TIL Warren Buffett met his mistress Astrid Menks, while she was a waitress at a nightclub his wife was a singer at. The women ‘shared’ Buffett from the 1970’s until his wife died in 2004. The three would send out Christmas cards signed “Warren, Susie and Astrid.” In 2006 Buffett married his mistress
Eeoo TIL: A new ‘Bionic’ lens can give people eyesight up to three times better than 20/20.
R5dLQ TIL Portugal offered to give Macau to China as early as 1978, but China refused, believing this would worsen their relations with Hong Kong. Portugal would only leave Macau in 1999, two years after Hong Kong became under Chinese rule.
wLE78 TIL that in 1970, the state commission in Mississippi voted to not air Sesame Street because of its “highly [racially] integrated cast of children” which “the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for”.