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TIL The Filling of Reese’s Pieces Is Not Peanut Butter

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DbRe TIL both of Geddy Lee’s (lead singer/bassist of Rush) parents were Holocaust survivors. First imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were separated to Bergen-Belsen and Dachau; they found each other after Allied liberation, married, and emigrated to Canada.
v1vlx TIL that L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz", wanted to exterminate all remaining American Indians in the 1890s
W7YpX TIL Hawaii is not part of North America (or any continent) but is in the geographic region Oceania
NaOQ TIL that there was a popular myth in many middle eastern countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the state department to issue a denial
5YpPP TIL Metallica Feeds the Hungry on Every Stop of Their World Tour