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TIL Mars makes 2 billion M&Ms every 8 hours.

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x6vrw TIL the "Teddy Bear" was inspired by a political cartoon about U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to kill a defenseless bear because it was "unsportsmanlike" during an unsuccessful hunting trip in 1902.
ADypl TIL The actor who played the high school student Pedro Sanchez in Napoleon Dynamite (Efren Ramirez) was almost 30 years old at the time
e0Aak TIL Black Widow merchandise was blocked by Marvel's Ex Marvel Studios CEO because he thought girls superhero toys wouldn't sell.
GAWX7 TIL about D-VHS or Digital VHS, a 50 GB VHS cassette tape capable of recording high-definition video. Released in 1998 in an attempt to save the VHS format, D-VHS was more bulky and expensive than DVDs and hard disks and failed to make headway into the video market.
oRPNo TIL there can be a >135f differential between the Antarctic air temperature and the incubation temperature of emperor penguin eggs. Male emperor penguins incubate the eggs over the winter, fasting for 4 months, holding them between their feet and a super insulated down pouch until they hatch.