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TIL Astronaut Ice Cream has never been taken into space
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R7om6
TIL that the ground cinnamon sold in most stores is actually derived from "cassia", a tree related to "true cinnamon".
BrWPk
TIL that debunking a famed fake mechanical chess player helped set Edgar Allan Poe on the path to mystery writing
GA4yg
TIL that when an illiterate lottery winner named Abraham Shakespeare (!) mysteriously vanished, amateur web sleuths lured the woman eventually convicted of Shakespeare’s murder into their true crime forum. Link to that forum thread in the comments
grR7b
TIL "Leatherface" actor Gunnar Hansen wrote a book called Islands at the Edge of Time, A Journey To America's Barrier Islands describing how important these islands are for coastline protection and examples of human habitation.
GAplN
TIL Samuel German invented German chocolate cake while working for Baker’s Chocolate, which is named after James Baker. They’re both eponymous.