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TIL that "Ding Dong School," the first U.S. preschool TV show, was canceled when its star refused to let the network broadcast ads for BB guns.

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awMyy TIL that North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola.
E10dd TIL the word for loving the smell of old books is Bibliosmia and that scientists can analyse the chemicals responsible for the old book smell to determine the books age.
rREk0 TIL That sucralose, the artificial sweetener in Splenda, was discovered on accident in 1976 when a researcher was told to "test" a chemically modified sucrose molecule they had made. He thought he had been asked to "taste" it, so he did, and he found it to be exceptionally sweet.
PeaG TIL the Walgreens pharmacy franchise grew from 20 to 400 stores during Prohibition due to liquor prescriptions.
epPEg Today I learned exactly what it meant when someone in the 1950's said "The rabbit died" 🥺🥺🥺 Thankfully that wouldn't make it today.