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TIL in 1998 Lay's introduced fat free "WOW" chips containing a fat substitute called "Olestra." They were incredibly popular with $400 million in sales their first year. The following year sales dropped in half as Olestra caused side effects like "abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and "anal leakage"

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7rxlZ TIL that many Union veterans saw it as insulting that Confederate monuments were being built to commemorate the very traitors they fought against. They saw it as an affront to their military service and an affront to their dead colleagues who died fighting the Confederacy.
ADxNB TIL that Estelle Getty who played Bea Arthur's mother in Golden Girls was actually younger than her on-screen daughter
N77V6 TIL McDonald's Original Grimace Mascot Terrified Kids as a Four-Handed Totem for Gluttony
6EEZJ TIL that pipe organ introduction to George Michael’s “Faith” is the same tune as Wham’s “Freedom.”
0wp7R TIL about Danny the Street, a DC hero that is a sentient street that can teleport. He crossdresses, by lining the streets with gun shops with frilly lace. He reverts to become a brick, kills a god, becomes a planet, then turns into an ambulance.