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TIL that the creator of hot cheetos (Richard Montañez) worked as a janitor at a fitro-lays factory and dropped out at fourth grade. The hot cheeto dust was also a homemade recipe created by Richard Montañez and his wife.

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16Mr4 TIL in the 1950s, future stuntman Evel Knievel drove earth movers in a Montana copper mine. He was fired for making the vehicle do a wheelie and accidentally crashing it into a power line, cutting power to the city.
aw9PN TIL Hershey's does not meet the legal minimum cocoa content to be described as chocolate in Britain
j66bM TIL that two separate historical figures have died from laughter at a joke about figs. Chrysippus of Soli and King Martin of Aragon
XEwLD TIL people are smarter in the summer and fall, to such a degree that it is significantly easier to diagnose dementia in the winter. Other species have similar “seasonal plasticity”.
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.