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TIL General Mills makes Jolly Rancher cereal, with grape, cherry, apple, watermelon and blue raspberry crunchy pieces.

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5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
xVm05 TIL Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" was originally never intended to be released as a single. When Hawaiian DJ Pablo Sato downloaded the album from an MP3 site, he played the song on American radio the next day. Within a couple of days, it was the number-one requested song.
L9Wv TIL due to an oversight by the Metropolitan Police, the BBC now own the trademark of the blue police box (the TARDIS) instead of the actual police force
xpZo TIL That the person who came up with the Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître.
oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.