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TIL Reese’s Pieces aren’t made with peanut butter. Instead it’s a fudge like filling flavored like peanuts.

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PJPL TIL: The director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13 year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges, this is why his 2011 film Carnage staring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly although set in New York was actually filmed in Paris.
rNE11 TIL that certain Mayan bloodletting rituals calls for piercing the penis of a ruler. Blood was then scattered and collected and burned. Other soft body parts were used depending on the needs of the ritual. For example, genitalia would be pierced for fertility rituals.
1a7Xr TIL that one time on The Price Is Right the sound effects for the big wheel were not working so the audience provided them.
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