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TIL red Sour Patch Kids are the exact same candy as Swedish fish, just with the sour sugar.

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OonXL TIL Jesse James and his brother gave an indebted widow money to pay off her mortgage the day before the bank was to take her house and insisted she get a receipt for paying the man. They then robbed the banker on his way back to the bank.
rvOy TIL in the 1960’s, US spy planes were taking photos of Cuba. Those who analyzed them noticed something peculiar. They were building soccer fields. Cubans don’t like soccer, they like baseball. Russians like soccer. This is how the Cuban Missile Crisis started.
n8n9 TIL that Winamp took their slogan “It really whips the llama’s ass!” from a song by an infamous, schizophrenic outsider-musician and visual artist named Wesley Willis.
0wxa1 TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List
6E6w7 TIL that children's TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents" from their parent's wallets and purses. He received thousands of dollars in the mail and was suspended for two weeks.