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TIL Milk Duds are called “duds” because they wanted them to be perfectly round and that was found to be impossible.

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m1dgp TIL that RadioShack has been purchased by a series of organizations that then went nearly or fully bankrupt, including Tai Lopez’ holding company
DJDD TIL the Flash has moved and ran so fast, that he was capable of outrunning and defeating death itself (the Black Flash) by outracing it to the end of time/space, past entropy, the next Big Bang and into the next Universe.
VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
Lk7DV TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned, amongst many other pets, two lions given to him by the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
XEKjX TIL: In 1665, King Charles II said the southern border of Virginia colony must stretch to the Pacific! In the end it didn't, but over years a resulting survey line (along 36°30′ N.Lat.) became part of 6 state borders (VA, NC, KY, TN, OK, TX). (The line was also a slave/free states divider out West.)