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TIL Amazon owns the patent for purchasing things with a single mouse click

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YpMpv TIL Michael Caine only agreed to be in 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' because his 7-year-old daughter was too young to see his other films, and he wanted her to watch him in something.
4XO0X TIL Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” to tease his chronically indecisive friend, Edward Thomas, who misinterpreted the meaning and enlisted in the military shortly thereafter, only to be killed two years later in WWI
epp04 TIL of the post WWII "Return of the Dead" program, in which the bodies of 171,000 fallen US servicemen were returned to the United States, and another 110,000 were reburied in 14 new military cemeteries overseas, according to family wishes. The program cost $164 million, about $1.8 billion today.
e0EJD TIL that bread products (Such as bagels and, well, bread) use a chemical called L-cysteine, is a chemical that comes from hairs in such animals as Humans, Duck feathers, and Hog hairs.
6N4w TIL the last game for the Sega Genesis was released in 2010 and proved so popular it sold out before release, forcing the developers to produce a second run.