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TIL the ice cream truck jingle most Americans grew up with was used in minstrel shows, so RZA (of Wu-Tang Clan) created a new, publicly-available ice cream jingle

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JKjV TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
pYJjp TIL Albert Lexie was a shoeshiner who worked at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh beginning in the early 1980s. Over the course of his roughly 30-year career he donated $200,000 to the Free Care Fund, more than a third of his lifetime salary.
nxkB TIL that in July 2011, Apple Inc. had more cash in the bank than the US government.
Ar04 TIL There are stones in Romania called Trovants that grow and multiply after rainfaill
4kbNw TIL that those "raw" cashews you buy at the store aren't really raw! Truly raw cashews contain urushiol, the same stuff that makes poison ivy so irritating. To make them safe to eat, cashews are steamed, roasted, or boiled to remove the urushiol.