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TIL Oreos are a knock-off of Hydrox cookies, which came out four years earlier (in 1908)

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WB4o TIL of Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. He had 37 puncture wounds, exposed intestine, broken jaw, and eyes caked in blood. He was pronounced dead until he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.
PYypJ TIL in 2011, a 13 year old Norwegian boy encountered a pack of wolves while walking back alonefrom school. He managed to fend them off by removing his headphones and blasting the song "Overcome", by Creed on full volume
KYBKJ TIL during production of “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit”, 250 people, 43 Gromits, 35 Wallaces, 2.8 tonnes of Plasticine and one Austin A35 van, went into the movie, producing 3 seconds of usable footage per day
amob TIL of ‘Radium Girls’, US Radium, and UnDark, radium paint applied to watches and gauges. Though executives protected themselves, they denied any danger to ‘the girls’ applying UnDark and blamed health problems on syphilis. The 'girls’ died rapidly, their bodies radioactive almost a century later.
gMKj7 TIL To prevent English tech vocabulary from entering the French language, French officials suggested 'le mobile multifonction' (mobile multifunction) as an alternative to the English word 'smartphone.'