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TIL there were no red M&Ms for over a decade because a common red food coloring was found to cause cancer. M&Ms never contained the cancer causing FD&C Red No. 2, but Mars still pulled all their red candies to avoid consumer confusion.

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9YbXX TIL that German expertise was critical for Saddam Hussein's development of chemical weapons. For a decade Germans built facilities, factories, and sold 1,027 ton of precursors for mustard gas and sarin. 52% of Iraqi CW equipment had German origin and equated to 150 ton mustard gas and 60 ton Tabun.
nWa9P TIL that mathematician Paul Erdos regularly used amphetamines. A concerned friend bet Erdos $500 that he couldn’t go a month without taking them. Erdos won the bet, then complained that mathematics had been set back by a month.
W74nA TIL Antillia doesn't exists but Antilles are the caribean islands
nWnbb TIL The blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield got famous through a media blitz and a series of intentional wardrobe malfunctions. Mansfield's strategically busting seams got her constant coverage, even her measurements were nationally famous. In 1960 Mansfield was in more print than anyone else on earth.
Q6RX TIL the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald sued American Airlines for negligence for letting 9/11 hijackers board their flights. The attacks led to the deaths of numerous Cantor Fitzgerald employees and the destruction of their World Trade Center office. They settled out of court for $135 million.