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TIL that Kool Aid used to be called Fruit Smack, and that Kool Aid actually thrives during the Great Depression, unlike other businesses at the time

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xPVg TIL Sting receives approx $2000 per day from royalties for the song ‘Every Breath You Take’ and also 100% of the royalties from the P-Diddy remix 'I’ll Be Missing You’
N7gd6 TIL chilli peppers are used to make paint for ships to prevent barnacles from settling on them. This is a better alternative than toxic paint and is used because barnacles can make a ship use up to 30% more fuel.
XvM6 TIL learned that the last Calvin and Hobbes strip was published in newspapers 19 years ago today.
D1oNP TIL A pizza company, Zume Pizza uses robots for many stages of pizza production. The pizzas are cooked en route in a van equipped with 56 GPS-equipped automated ovens, timed to be ready shortly before arrival at the address, and are then sliced by a self-cleaning robot cutter.
NAPP TIL some Hiroshima survivors grew “black fingernails,” which were strange rod-shaped fingernails that contained active blood vessels and bled profusely when they broke off.