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TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies

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v1XLR TIL The cartoon character mascots on children’s cereal boxes are deliberately drawn to make direct eye contact with children when on shelves, so that the child fosters loyalty with the character from the cereal brand.
BbLy TIL 90% of college students from China in the US cheat to get admitted
694RW TIL that a Beatles knockoff, Los Shakers, were one of the most successful and influential bands of the 1960s in Argentina and Uruguay. The band imitated the Beatles’ looks, music, changed genres as the Beatles did, spearheaded the “Uruguayan invasion”, and even sang mostly in English
rY4W TIL researchers printed out a beating mouse heart using a modified printer with cells in the ink cartridge.
1aVgD TIL in 2009 a man won a $10,000 settlement after getting kicked out of Yankee Stadium by off-duty police officers for trying to use the bathroom while "God Bless America" was playing.