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TIL that the Rolling Stones' 'Brown Sugar' was about actress Marsha Hunt—the mother of Mick Jagger's first child

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19LV TIL in 1953, Swanson had 260 tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and didn’t know how to get rid of it. They asked their workers for ideas, and one man thought they should package it in individual trays with sides and freeze it. The TV dinner was born.
PYg1L TIL Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, sent letters to Hitler pleading with him to avoid war noting that he himself "shunned the method of war not without considerable success"
ANk8g TIL many Irish weddings include playing the song “Rock the Boat” which starts a group dance where everyone sits on the dance floor, legs splayed in a conga line pretending to row a boat
yQ7QM TIL the Air Force recently invented underwear for fighter pilots that automatically detects urine and flushes it into a sack where it freezes the urine for disposal after the flight, solving a major problem of inflight peeing.
l7neN TIL that not all spiders that spin webs make them sticky. One of many strategies includes spinning a fine silky lattice that entangles their prey instead.