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TIL during WWII, the code word for "Hitler" was "Crazy white man" for the Comanche Code Talkers

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16AwD TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.
QJ6eM TIL that in the 1970s, American Kitchen Foods released 'I hate peas!', which were just peas disguised in a fry-shaped format to get more kids to eat peas. The product, along with the rest of the 'I hate' line, was not well-received by kids.
ALk7 TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from a dissertation written by another student three years earlier. King also plagiarized a portion of his “I Have a Dream” speech from Archibald Carey Jr.’s address to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
LkZm TIL John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) actually planted apple trees in prime real estate in an effort to sell the land as new settlers flooded into the midwest.
ybDp TIL only 345 American deaths in the Spanish-American War were due to combat, 88% of all American deaths were due to disease. More than 62,000 people died from disease over the course of the war.