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TIL Mega Warheads candy were invented in 1970s Taiwan but it wasn't until the 1990s that they made it to American stores

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5pZR TIL When Tupac first started rapping, he was attending the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studied theater, ballet, and other forms of art. He loved his classes and would have graduated if he hadn’t been evicted due to his mom being a member of the Black Panther Party.
b6X4a TIL that the first instance of Panda Diplomacy was by Madame Chiang, who arranged for pandas to be sent to San Francisco as a dramatic way of saying thank you. The pandas received attention, but not as much as hoped, because on their way to the US, Pearl Harbor had been bombed.
D1DeY TIL In 1999, a large fragment of a window fell from the CNA Center and killed a woman walking with her child. CNA Financial paid $18 million to settle the resultant lawsuit. Windows had been cracking since it had been built in 1975 and all of the building's windows were replaced in a retrofit.
5rGD TIL Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had a sequel, but the author hated the first movie so much that he refused to have a film version produced.
NLX8 TIL Before he was famous, author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, managed America’s first Saab dealership. It failed within a year.