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TIL Lay’s WOW chips were recalled because they made people literally shit their pants

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PY4Bg TIL Dixie Land was written by a Unionist, and a favorite song of Abraham Lincoln
xnD1 TIL Although violet and purple look very similar, violet is a true color with its own set of wavelengths on the spectrum of visible light, while purple is a composite color made by combining blue and red
ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”
9YdaG TIL Woodrow Wilson is the only U.S. president to have a doctorate degree, technically allowing him the title “Dr. President”
69LY TIL: Microsoft just updated their terms and specifically disallowed monetization of gameplay videos on YouTube