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TIL that Nelson Mandela’s wife supported torturing and killing opponents

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yQp5X TIL "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was first published in Japan because U.S. printers could not afford the holes and irregular pages.
epMDJ TIL The set used for Amity Island in Jaws (1975) was later used as Cabot Cove on Murder She Wrote.
0wkZ1 TIL the London underground system, once advertised as a cool escape from hot weather, has been slowly heating up due to dissipated heat from trains braking being captured and retained by surrounding clay, a natural insulator.
rvw4 TIL Paul Rudd and Jeffery Dean Morgan co-own a candy store
nYgG TIL that pop rocks (and other popping candy) work by carbonating the candy in its liquid state, creating high pressure pockets of gas that are released when you eat it. Effectively, its a carbonated food as opposed to a carbonated beverage.