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TIL So much cow intestines were used in the production of German zeppelins that sausages were banned

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JwX4 TIL - In ancient legend, elves weren’t the noble creatures portrayed in Tolkien’s stories but powerful and dangerous supernatural beings who were more likely to harm humans than to help them. Their name says so: it comes from an ancient Germanic term for a nightmare.
p8WyQ TIL that the artificial banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel: the predominant banana that went extinct in the 60's (replaced by the current less flavorful Cavendish). Today, when you eat something "banana" flavored, you're tasting species of banana that went extinct long ago.
0wEkL TIL the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was the first #1 song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to feature a curse word ("damn") in the lyrics
QJZe TIL that a contestant on The Price Is Right dropped three chips into the Plinko board which all landed in the $10,000 slot, because fishing lines used to rig the game were accidentally left in after an advertisement was taped.
KYoxQ TIL about Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who lived until the age of 78 in a iron lung