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TIL Quaker Oatmeal packages in 1902 contained a coupon redeemable for an actual deed to a small plot of land in Milford, CT.

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OG4rY TIL that in the 90s, Disney proposed a live-action version of Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) using the USS Arizona as the main vessel instead of Yamato
vb7L TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the only person to be awarded the “Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds”, the highest a soldier could achieve; he flew 2,530 combat missions and was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.
wLZM7 TIL that during World War 1, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them.
pYEpb TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."
4DxJ TIL that Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.