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TIL that under guardianship laws the guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

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ndaG TIL Edmund McIlhenny, inventor of Tabasco sauce, did not consider his sauce to be a major accomplishment and made no mention of it in his autobiography toward the end of his life, nor was it mentioned in his obituary.
ZONY TIL Operation Popeye was a US military program attempting to extend the monsoon season through weather modification during the Vietnam War.
YW6G TIL Bubble wrap was originally designed to be a three-dimensional wall paper.
lvEA TIL there’s an open source brand of cola that’s under the GNU Public License and has been through several revisions.
4Xj6X TIL of Vitaly Yurchenko, a KGB officer who was turned by the CIA and defected to the US. He gave the name of 2 moles, and in 1985 disappeared just before eating at a French restaurant in DC. He later reappeared in Russia, saying he was drugged and kidnapped by the CIA, and was given a medal.