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TIL that All-Dressed chips are a combo of BBQ, ketchup, sour cream & onion, and salt & vinegar.

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nej79 TIL of the Orgone Accumulator, a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless 'healing energy'. The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."
PYnWZ TIL about Polyandry, a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. One example of polyandry is in the Himalayan mountains, due to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.
Z8wRR TIL that when falconers want to breed falcons, they wear special sex hats with pockets to catch falcon semen. Birds reared by humans often sexually imprint on the falconer. The sex hat encourages the falcon to copulate with the falconers head and collects its sperm for artificial insemination.
oYn8 TIL that Hans and Margret Rey, two jews, fled Paris in 1940 on bicycles Hans had built. They escaped just hours before the Nazis seized Paris. Among the few possessions they carried was the illustrated manuscript of the first Curious George book, which they would later get published in New York.
N7DbN TIL that the larger Pacific striped octopus is one of the only species of octopus that is not cannbalistic during mating, rather the two partners embrace each other intimately with their beaks and suckers, and they live in groups of up to 40 individuals unlike most other solitary species of octopus