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TIL Jim Henson’s Cookie Monster evolved from a puppet named Arnold, featured (along with Henson) in a Muncho’s potato crisp commercial in 1969.

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5axD TIL Chinese vampires are depicted in movies as hopping around because in the Qing Dynasty people used to pay ‘corpse carriers’ to return dead migrants to their hometowns. They’d be transported at night lined up on bamboo poles, which would flex as the carriers ran, making the bodies appear to bounce
v1jwK TIL 6th grade student Hunter Scott did a research project on the USS Indianapolis in 1997 which eventually led to the exoneration of Captain Charles B McVay, who had widely been held responsible for the sinking of the ship in 1945 by Japanese forces. McVay committed suicide in 1968.
9Y6N7 TIL modern DNA testing exists due to Yellowstone park, as DNA polymerase chain reaction is made possible by a chemical isolated from Yellowstone Park bacteria
W7OPB TIL that black people were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on July 4th, so butter pecan was created as an alternative.
jNk8p TIL if you are being questioned by authorities in the US and you choose to remain silent in response to a specific question, that silence may itself be construed as evidence of guilt, unless you specifically state that you're invoking your right to remain silent under the 5th Amendment.