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TIL about Oliver Chase, a Boston pharmacist in the 1800s who created medicinal lozenges in the shape of hearts with printed statements, now known as Sweethearts.

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4Gwg TIL the Sega Master System is still alive in Brazil with new games still being made
oB4kW TIL about Hell, a village in Norway that has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway went through Hell and across the Hell bridge, so you were literally able to drive on the Highway to Hell.
wNXM TIL: Campbell’s now estimates 40% of the Cream of Mushroom soup sold in the US goes into making green bean casserole.
OGylR TIL that Grover Cleveland is the only US President to be elected on non-consecutive terms.
xVA85 TIL that during WW1 the British used semen as invisible ink, and the name of the man who invented this technique was “Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming”