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TIL after the founders of Smartfood popcorn sold their company to Frito-Lay in 1989, they later founded Annie's brand, known for their mac and cheese

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WkaeN TIL: China is banned from the International Space Station (ISS)
GY894 TIL super weaners are elephant seal pups who, in an attempt to slow their weaning, will steal milk from nursing female elephant seals ("milk thieves"), or be adopted by another nursing mother elephant seal ("double mother-sucklers"). Super weaners are usually male, and may weigh up to 600 lbs.
QN70p TIL that astronauts from the Apollo missions reported that lunar dust smells similar to spent gunpowder after they returned from spacewalks and removed their helmets inside the module.
8eBjL TIL Great White Sharks have poison resistance that defies logic. Samples of shark blood showed levels of arsenic and mercury that should be harmful if not deadly but the sharks were unaffected. Additionally Great Whites' have impressive self-healing abilities.
J1lej TIL Hawaii only has only 5 counties and one of them is a former leper colony with a population of 81 and land area of 5.2 square miles, the smallest in the United States