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TIL of the Marmite Crisis (Marmageddon) of 2012-13 in New Zealand. After a cooling tower at the only factory broke down, Marmite was dubbed “Black Gold”. Value of jars increased to over NZ$800 on auction sites.

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VM04Z TIL The FBI attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide, instructing him to acquiesce and commit suicide prior to accepting his Nobel Peace Award. "There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation"
Q6va TIL Samosas were banned in Somalia because vendors were stuffing them with cat meat
LkWNr TIL- Dr Allan Zarkin was so proud of the caesarian section he performed, he carved his initials onto his patient's abdomen. She sued the hospital for $5.5m
pY9BO TIL that Bugs Bunny got his name by accident in 1940 when a model sheet was hand-labelled "Bugs' Bunny" to indicate it was for animator Ben "Buggsy" Hardaway to work on. The possessive apostrophe was dropped when staff thought that was the rabbit's actual name - and it stuck.
vPVbK TIL that the infamous (Sylvia Plath) suicide technique of sticking one's head in an oven was not a hot, violent affair. Rather, ovens used to run on "town gas" that had high carbon monoxide, and putting your head in an unlit oven was a rather peaceful way to go.