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TIL Miracle Whip is a salad dressing, because the U.S. FDA requires that anything labeled as “mayonnaise” must contain a minimum of 65 percent vegetable oil by weight.

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69P07 TIL Ernst Hanfstaengl, a confidant of Hitler, defected to the US after he fell out of favor. He had been ordered to parachute over Spain and be an agent for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, but he was convinced it was a plot on his life. Albert Speer claimed that it was an elaborate practical joke.
ANMoo TIL the phrase ""if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck" originated from a mechanical duck made in the 18th century that would appear to eat, digest and expel food.
oZXo TIL between 1922 and 1933, The Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola company three times. It declined on each occasion.
go07 TIL that the municipal government of Paris passed a resolution to prohibit Tom Cruise from becoming an honorary citizen of the city.
DQYQJ TIL that Mike Tyson had to pay Lennox Lewis $335,000 for biting him on the leg, at their pre-fight press conference.