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TIL Wisconsin State Ban On Oleo Margarine Led To Smuggling

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4adb TIL Until the 1960′s, the only reliable pregnancy test was to inject a woman’s urine into a female African clawed frog. If the woman was pregnant, the frog would ovulate within 12 hours.
x6mLg TIL that in 2002, McDonald's attracted significant public criticism, after It released a burger in Norway and Denmark called "McAfrika", just as a major famine was occurring in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Lesotho and Swaziland
LkRZ0 TIL that Conrad Veidt, whose depiction of the lead in "The Man Who Laughs" inspired The Joker, married a Jewish woman in defiance of the growing power of the Nazi party. Although he was not Jewish, he wrote "Jewish" on his racial identification card. The couple wisely fled Germany for England.
YVrZ TIL that Will Smith saved humanity from aliens on the same day two years in a row. First in Independence Day and again the next year in Men in Black.
4XYJ6 TIL in Italy, Donald Duck has had for 50 years a superpowered alter-ego who started off with grappling hooks and is now an intergalactic warrior with a rocket-shield-glove that houses the digital consciousness of his mentor.