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TIL the claim on Cheerios' box that it could lower cholesterol by 4% was removed after the FDA warned General Mills that it was false advertising. GM fought back but eventually changed the box to read the cereal could lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet.

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dDEK7 TIL Boeing pressured the US government to impose a 300% tariff on imports of Bombardier CSeries planes. The situation got bad enough that Canada filed a complaint at the WTO against the US. Eventually, Bombardier subsequently sold a 50.01% in the plane to Boeing's main competitor, Airbus, for $1.
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.
p8OA8 TIL during a live performance in 1965, The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies asked drummer Mick Avory "Why don’t you get your cock out and play the snare with it? It’ll probably sound better." In response, Avory knocked Davies unconscious with a cymbal and then fled the venue, thinking he'd killed him.
Wk1vL TIL during World War I, both sides used fake trees as spy posts. To make them, engineers would find a dead tree, then take sketches of it and make a detailed replica. At night, they would then would tear out the original tree and replace it with the fake.
jKWX TIL Happy Madison, Adam Sandler’s production company, has never released a film with a Rotten Tomatoes rating higher than 68. Four of their films have scored a 3 or less.