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

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LQrx0 TIL before joining the Ramones, Joey Ramone went by the stage name "Jeff Starship." He used the name from 1972 until 1974, the same year Jefferson Airplane changed its name to Jefferson Starship.
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