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TIL that Quaker Oats produced Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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AD51o TIL about the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a motley collection of barges and gunboats assembled to defend Chesapeake Bay from the British Royal Navy. The ships were scuttled to prevent capture, and the sailors brought the cannons ashore to defend Washington D.C. in the Battle of Bladensburg.
wLYY TIL Alan Rickman failed his California driving test at one point for “driving too cautiously through a green light”
BgRNW TIL while working on a heart rhythm recording device, Wilson Greatbatch mistakenly installed the wrong resistor, causing the device to emit electrical pulses instead - leading to the invention of the implantable pacemaker.
5ZRR TIL: The word gasoline has nothing to do with gas, it was a brand knock off of the original Cazeline when a shop owner drew a line on the C to make it a G
Br8Kd TIL of the Roman military ritual evocatio, in which they'd attempt to deprive an enemy of divine protection by summoning their god and promising to worship it better