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TIL: McCormick Pure Orange Extract sold in Walmart is 80% alcohol. No age check at the counter.

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GYRrQ TIL 1-800-COLLECT was so popular in the 90s that AT&T launched a competing service, 1-800-Operator. However AT&T later discovered many people misspell Operator with 'er' instead of 'or' at the end, and that unfortunately, 1-800-COLLECT owned the misspelled number and had been taking their customers.

8YZa TIL The guy that punched Snooki had to join the army after losing his job

m6JO TIL after WWII plants were bombarded with radiation to produce useful mutations known as Atomic Gardening which resulted in todays peppermint and red grapefruit

8NEb TIL that famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was in Paris during the Nazi occupation; despite Django being a gypsy, handicapped, a player of a banned music style, and a known friend of blacks and Jews, the nazi’s left him alone because some higher nazi officers were huge fans of his music.

6d7l TIL if you go to a clinic or ER within 72 hours of exposure and take the PEP drug regimen, you can prevent infection with HIV/AIDS.