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TIL that the Kool-Aid man is an official Marvel character

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l40a TIL: 3 US Presidents died from drinking water contaminated with sewage
E1mJX TIL Toilets (toilets being flushed) almost never were seen in American cinema in the 1960s. In his "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock masterfully used a scene of a toilet being flushed, which had an additional shocking effect on the viewers of that day.
46j6 TIL in 1995 Michael Jordan ruined Muggsy Bogues’ career with one line of trash talk.
XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)
DR0D TIL 60 tons of mammoth tusks is excavated every year and marketed as an ethical source of ivory. It sells for ~$350/kg