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TIL most “baby carrots” are cut-down carrots that would otherwise be rejected from supermarkets for being too ugly

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XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.
XEPnX TIL After Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská lost her training facility due to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, she trained for the 1968 Olympics in the forest using potato sacks as weights and logs as beams. She medaled in all six events, four of them Gold.
XA8k TIL Danny Trejo(machete) is 70 years old!
yVoQv TIL that Coca-Cola sells 1.9 billion drinks per day
JYwX8 TIL “money laundering" originated with the Italian mafia and criminals such as Al Capone, who purchased 'Laundromats' to mix their illegal profits from prostitution and bootlegged liquor sales with legitimate business sales from the 'Laundromats' to conceal their illegal profit.