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TIL the dye in blue M&M’s repairs rats'spinal injuries when injected into them. It also turns them blue.

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m1LE TIL that in 1943, for one season only, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged and played as the Phil-Pitt Steagles. The reason for the merger was that both teams had lost so many players to the WWII Draft.
JYJgB TIL that the vertical line in the Peace Sign represents the flag semaphore signal for the letter D, and the downward lines on either side represent the semaphore signal for the letter N. “N” and “D”, for nuclear disarmament, enclosed in a circle.
AALo TIL that nearly every top prize in the McDonald’s Monopoly game from 1995-2000 was fraudently redeemed by people associated with the marketing company contracted with running the promotion.
0EWR TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.
OGnLY TIL Henry Kissinger invested $6million into Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos scheme