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TIL Pope Benedict XVI was once a member of Hitler Youth after his church group was forced to merge with it.

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4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.
9YKpB TIL Saturn spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. Seriously, you see this by eye when you look at a picture of Saturn; it looks like it was squished. It’s the rapid spinning that’s squishing it, making the equator bulge.
5VwWp TIL Betty Crocker's Bisquick, "A World of Baking in a Box," is review-bombed and has lowered sales. The recipe was changed in 2022; recipes now require the addition of oil. Bisquick fans are unaware of the formula changes (following old recipes not the ones on the box).
9YOXB TIL that Jennings Lang, the guy behind the 1970's Airport movies, had an affair with actress Joan Bennett. When her husband found out in 1951 he fired a gun in to his testicles.
NXpDb TIL when Starbucks was developing Pumpkin Spice Latte's, their research and development team poured espresso shots on pumpkin pies, tasting different combos to determine the best ratio of cinnamon/nutmeg to coffee/steamed milk. It wasn't until 2015 that they started putting real pumpkin in the drink