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TIL the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups worked for Hershey before starting his own company. Some sources claim H.B. Reese was laid off, others claim he quit.

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neVdW TIL Ray Bradbury took 9 days to write his novella, The Firemen, in the basement of a UCLA library on a typewriter rented for 10¢/30 minutes. After being urged by his publisher, he returned to the basement, got to work, and expanded his novella into Fahrenheit 451, which also took 9 days to write
jvYp TIL that Sam Panopoulos, the man who invented Hawaiian pizza and started 1,000 internet arguments, died today at 82
NPGP TIL that the molecules which produce the smell of lemons and oranges are mirror images somehow our nose knows the difference!
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BegD TIL the Morton salt company raised the national U.S. intelligence by 3.5 IQ points when they iodinized salt. Lack of iodine produces cretinism which stunts physical and mental growth.