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TIL "Nut" in Honey Nut Cheerios refers to the almond flavor

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PYw5n TIL that “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur enlisted in the Marines in 1943 where she was one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve and spent time as a typist and a truck driver.
PvyG Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation
ZLBR TIL 3M company name stands for “Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company” = 3M
wLdEP TIL about Gilbert Seltzer - a WW2 veteran who lead a secret platoon of men within a unit dubbed the 'Ghost Army'. Made up of artists, creatives & engineers, their job was creating deception about the enemy. From inflatable tanks to scripted bar conversations, this unit's work led to big US wins.
jNwNE TIL that though the term has become genericized, “Seeing Eye dog” is a registered trademark reserved for guide dogs trained by The Seeing Eye, Inc., the oldest existing guide dog school in the world.