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TIL that Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post

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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.
bLa7 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
wLBb8 TIL there is a long lost tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in NYC, that may contain an 18th century locomotive which is reported to be the hiding place of John Wilks Booth's lost diary. A man found the tunnel in 1980, but it was resealed by the city before he could finish searching for the train.
kJPWg TIL the woman who created the green bean casserole is in the Inventor's Hall of Fame
D158r TIL even before the surgeon general issued his report on the dangers of tobacco, Mad Magazine went on an anti-smoking crusade ridiculing big tobacco, as agencies, and even smokers. Also before it became law, Mad Magazine's offices were smoke free and none of their content featured smoking.