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TIL Snapple failed to beat the world record for biggest ice pop when 16 tons of frozen juice from a freezer truck melted faster than expected. Spectators fled to higher ground as firefighters hosed away the melted juice.

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PY4n TIL There was a scam called the “Spanish prison letter,” where victims received letters claiming to be written by a previously unknown Wealthy relative trapped in a Spanish prison. the prisoner would promise to share his fortune with the victim if they could manage to send the bail money.
ne6Bd TIL Mamoru Samuragochi is a deaf Japanese composer, who known as the “digital-age Beethoven” and creator of Onimusha’s OST. But, it later turned out that all of his works in 18 years were actually written by a ghost writer. And his deafness is all fake
nW7RG Today I learned that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not established regulatory limits for heavy metals in finished food products other than bottled water.
VeGZ TIL that the U.S. put strict regulations on steam engines because they were dangerous to operate. To get around this law, one company made boilers full of boiling gasoline instead of water.
xVj70 TIL that on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the word "two" was often pronounced "twain." When leadsmen measured a depth of two fathoms, they shouted "mark twain!" The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot from Missouri, got his pen name from this phrase.