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TIL that carrots used to be purple until the late 16th century

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awxLy TIL when Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins, she thanked Jack Warner, the producer of the competing movie, My Fair Lady. Andrews had starred in My Fair Lady on Broadway but Warner refused to cast her in the movie, leaving Andrews open to play Mary Poppins.
1ad9V TIL Martin Van Buren is presently the only US President who spoke English as a second language.
d87VQ TIL that Sylvester Stallone holds the record for the most Raspberry awards nominations with a whopping 14 nominations for worst actor and a further 3 for worst supporting actor beating Nicolas cage and Kevin Costner This is the same actor who acted in best picture winning Rocky as well as Rambo.
PK6J TIL that after banning the 3-finger Hunger Games salute as a symbol by activists opposing the coup that installed the military junta in Thailand in May, anti-coup activists decided to make sandwiches a symbol of protest. The military then arrested students for “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”
oRlQL TIL about the 'lemonade test' when presented with lemonade made with salt instead of sugar, girls overwhelmingly opted to be 'nice' and drink it, boys were more opt to express their true feelings