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TIL the ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs is a completely fabricated foreign name. The actual company founders were New York Jews who wanted a Danish-sounding brand name to honor Danes after WWII.

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LVpV TIL a boy scout created a hazardous radioactive site in his backyard while trying to build a nuclear reactor using household items, and was arrested in 2007 for stealing 16 smoke detectors, which contain radioactive material.
4kOr6 TIL that the blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.
mxNGE TIL that Philips, Osram and GE conspired together to reduce the lifetime of the light bulb (Planned Obsolescence)
5dPp TIL Frank Zappa was invited to perform in Live Aid concert (to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian famine) but he refused, calling the event “the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time.”
nWapG TIL The world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years. It was found in 2002, approximately 12 miles south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and is now housed in the city’s museum.