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TIL Blue Raspberry flavor is actually based on a white berry known as white bark raspberry

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4kdO5 TIL: That the Nazi rallying call "Sieg Heil" was inspired by American football cheerleading techniques. Imported by his friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler was so impressed by the rousing qualities inherent at American sporting events, that he would seek to emulate the atmosphere at his rallies.
KY6NQ TIL when NASA sent the first woman, Sally Ride, to space they thought she needed 100 tampons for a 6 day trip.
69M5X TIL that those oxygen masks that come down inside airplanes are connected to individual “chemical oxygen generators” rather than a supply of oxygen gas
d8PvQ TIL of William Henry Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 for fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds on May 14, 1918.
g5E9 TIL George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were both executive producers on The Land Before Time