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d8JL8 TIL General Mills makes Jolly Rancher cereal, with grape, cherry, apple, watermelon and blue raspberry crunchy pieces.
VBlrB TIL Five mice, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, traveled aboard Apollo 17 Command Module "America" with astronaut Ronald Evans and still hold the record for the most orbits of the Moon (75)
GOJQ TIL of the “idiot plot”. The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as “[a]ny plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots”.
KOg59 TIL In 1986 during one of the strangest natural disasters in history, "Lake Nyos" suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
x69l0 TIL that during World War 2, any Allied Prisoner of War in a German camp could write to Rolex and request a wrist watch without immediate payment. Rolex would send them a watch and save the bill for after the war.