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TIL Cocoa Puffs and Trix are just Kix with cocoa/fruit flavoring.

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wo6po TIL in 1714, a Native American guide in eastern North America showed a group of settlers a deep path worn in the streambank by herds of eastern elk crossing the river. By 1880, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern elk subspecies extinct.
OGML4 TIL the Köçek were young male slaves or Romani dancers who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire and were employed as entertainers in the Ottoman Empire during the 17th Century. Men were known to fight and occasionally kill for the opportunity to have sexual intercourse with them.
lgdV TIL that in 1945 Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
BrgoD TIL that Atari, using the Tengen, entered a partnershp with Nintendo to produce games. Atari proceeded to illegally get a copy of the Nintendo patent for the lock out chip, produced several unlicensed games, then attempted to sue Nintendo for monopolistic practices.
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