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TIL Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a spin-off from the 90’s show Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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p0xe TIL that the Tootsie roll recipe requires the previous day’s batch to be mixed into the current batch meaning theoretically there is some of the very first batch in every Tootsie roll today.
16nGr TIL that the author of the thriller The Four Just Men offered a £500 prize to whoever guessed the killer's name, but forgot to state there would only be one winner. The book became a bestseller but bankrupted him, as he was legally bound to pay every reader who answered correctly.
R7Pa TIL roughly 14% of humans do not have a Palmaris longus muscle in their arm. Presence can be checked by touching pinkie to thumb and flexing the wrist.
b9X60 TIL that Disney's 'A Bug's Life' was inspired by the Aesop fable 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' were the Grasshopper (who has spent all summer singing) begs the Ant for food (who has spent all summer storing it) when winter arrives, but he is refused
Z8vvv TIL: The common phrase for the worst betrayal, "Sold Down The River," originates from the experience of slaves who were torn from family and friends, literally sold and sent south on the Mississippi to a fate worse than imaginable picking cotton.