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TIL Betty Crocker was never real

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LZdv TIL that in The Simpsons episode “You Only Move Twice”, Albert Brooks ad-libbed most of Hank Scorpio’s dialogue. The end result was two hours of dialogue for Hank.
XJDR TIL: The word “nice” used to mean “foolish, stupid, senseless,” and comes from the Latin “nescire”, meaning “to be ignorant.”
ol9L TIL of the Bagger 293, the biggest vehicle in the world. It is an excavator that is 315 feet tall, 740 feet long, and weighs over 31 million pounds.
oJZo TIL that it is illegal to bring potatoes into Norway except if you have special permission.
Z8gWB TIL that, in 1973, America’s Army Material Command (AMC) ran a competition to name it’s new building. After receiving over 500 entries, a jury selected the winner: “AMC Building”