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TIL Honey Nut Cheerios do not, in fact, contain Nuts.

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8aWV TIL A mathematician called Paul Erdős used amphetamines to improve his work. A friend bet him $500 he couldn’t quit the amphetamines he for a month. Erdős won and then promptly resumed taking them after complaining it had delayed his mathematics work by a month.
6YVm TIL Weird Al turned down $5 million, in the late 80s, to endorse a beer company. He thought it was ethically wrong because, “a lot of his fans were young and impressionable.”
P1Q0E TIL in 2010 The Coca-Cola Company launched an advertising campaign where Facebook users, even minors, would allow them to post embarrassing things onto their feeds for a chance at $1000. They came under fire because "I watched '2 Girls 1 Cup' and felt hungry afterwards" was a possible phrase.
wxEP TIL Adult incest is legal in New Jersey.
4MO5 TIL - Europeans didn’t know Marco Polo’s “Cathay” was really China or that the city “Cambulac” was really Beijing, until 1598 when Jesuit priests in Beijing talked to Arab merchants there, who still called it Cambulac. Maps until the 17th century showed China and Cathay as 2 different empires.