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TIL 8 years ago Taylor Swift accidentally released an 8-second static noise and it went #1 in Canada iTunes in just minutes

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4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.
joVn TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988
mxRLE TIL that the ending theme to Muppet Babies was actually the instrumental theme to another, failed, Muppet show
wBD6 TIL in 1990 there was an anti-drug PSA called Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, about Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog, Slimer, Garfield, the Chipmunks, Michelangelo from TMNT, ALF, and other cartoons scaring the hell out of a 14-year-old marijuana addict. It aired all around the globe.
grxGW TIL: A six year old boy is the youngest soldier of World War 2.