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TIL Beaver Butts Emit Goo Used for Vanilla Flavoring

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XEEl6 Spies used it as a secret weapon. A president tumbled from it. Hitler wanted it destroyed. Just what made this train so intriguing?
4xQJ TIL Benjamin Franklin once sent classified letters to American revolutionaries detailing how the British were attempting to decrease American morale by gradually suppressing basic liberties, effectively making Franklin one of the first American “whistle-blowers”.
Gpb7 TIL that in movie credits “&” and “and” mean two different things. If two writers’ names are joined with “&” then they collaborated on the script, but if they’re joined with “and” then they worked on it at different times.
a848b TIL When Chandler Bing on Friends is watching Baywatch and telling Yasmine Bleeth to "run" it's actually an inside joke - Matthew Perry was dating Bleeth at the time.
yVVOl TIL that in Quebec, wafers used for holy communion are sold in stores as snacks