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TIL The Flintstones used to advertise cigarettes

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npVb TiL that, during the Iranian Embassy Siege, when given the choice of who from their number would be released, the hostages chose a man whose loud snoring was keeping them awake
j6eJR TIL that after the Italian surrender during WWII, 90% of US captured Italian POWs joined what are known as Italian Service Units. While still technically prisoners, they donned the American Army uniform and assisted with Allied war efforts through streamline war manufacturing and logistical support.
9Ym46 TIL John Von Neumann was considered the smartest man alive by his fellow physicists. Enrico Fermi once told his Ph.D student: "You know how much faster I am in thinking than you are? That's how much faster von Neumann is compared to me."
Me0dV TIL Some fundamentalist members of the Mormon faith believe Bigfoot is Cain from the Bible, damned to walk the Earth forever as a ferocious beast as punishment for killing his brother Abel.
VB5Q8 TIL it was the Incans who originally made the original recipe of peanut butter, and Marcellus Edison who made the peanut butter we know and love today. George Washington Carver did not create peanut butter.