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TIL, YMCA help invent Basketball, Volleyball and Racquetball

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eppLJ TIL that "American cheese" is a combination of cheddar, Colby, washed curd, or granular cheeses. By federal law, it must be labeled "process American cheese" if made of more than one cheese or "process American cheese food" if it's at least 51% cheese but contains other specific dairy ingredients.
ADKZd TIL Sylvester Stallone signed onto the film Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot based on rumors that Arnold Schwarzenegger was interested in the lead. Schwarzenegger confirmed a rumor that, knowing the script was "really bad", he had publicly faked interest in starring for producers to lure Stallone.
WkAnX TIL that Disney fired Steve Whitmire (voice of Kermit the Frog for 27 years) for speaking up against changes being made to the character that he felt were against what creator Jim Henson would have wanted.
VMgvD TIL Admiral Jeremiah Denton Jr. used his eyes to blink the word "TORTURE" using Morse Code during his captivity in Vietnam.
b60V0 TIL That the Big Mac Index is an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity between two countries, a theory created by the Economist in 1986