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TIL McDonald’s created a bubble gum flavored broccoli that was a big failure with kids.

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J1Lrm TIL There was case in US where a person failed to die during electric chair execution and then his lawyers tried to argue that he was not dead but he had been executed and that it was cruel to go through a second time.
p8YJp TIL that prior to the 1970's the 2nd Amendment wasn't interpreted as an individual's right to bear arms, and that it has an entirely unnecessary comma.
b6ewN TIL that, 1.7 billion years ago, there was a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that produced power for hundreds of thousands of years.
XyR TIL that mimicking the behavior of others causes you to be perceived as more friendly by interlocutors. This is known as “The Chameleon Effect.”
KOX0a TIL that in 2009 a teenager was assaulted and gang-raped at a school in California, and it took over two hours for anyone to call the police despite there being multiple witnesses to the attack, some of whom allegedly filmed the proceedings instead