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TIL that the US army wanted to master memes to influence enemies and the population in 2006

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bPEj TIL Reese’s Pieces aren’t made with peanut butter. Instead it’s a fudge like filling flavored like peanuts.
kO4WE TIL of Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the Predator (1987), who was in a near fatal car accident in 1990. While receiving a blood transfusion at the hospital, he contracted AIDS and died less than a year later.
rRrwe TIL Mayonnaise is the most frequently purchased condiment in the US, beating ketchup by $1.2 billion annual revenue.
X0wxj TIL a supermarket employee in Iowa disappeared in 2009 during a shift, and his body was finally found in 2019, having decomposed in a gap between a freezer and the wall
JYdVQ TIL People all over the world believe chocolate can help you lose weight because a Journalist Scammed The Media Into Spreading Bad Chocolate Science to prove a point about non peer reviewed science articles.