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TIL Funyuns were originally going to be called “OnYums”, but it was discovered that name was already taken.

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8eJ0V TIL Levitt & Sons was an industry leader in building mass-production housing. They sold for $90M in 1964 but filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2007.
JYnv1 TIL the longest filibuster in US history (a process of delaying a bill passing by speaking in the Senate until you want to stop) was over 24 hours (24 hours and 18 minutes). This was an attempt to delay The Civil Rights Act of 1957.
QNWRk TIL in 1964, the Nth Country Experiment took three recent PhD graduates, gave them unclassified data and, three years yater, they managed to create a working device to produce a nuclear bomb
0dgPR TIL Red Foxx, whose real last name was Sanford, worked as a dishwasher in Harlem with Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X
xVeV1 TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.