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

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GAv1Q TIL body cameras are being marketed for hospital workers in the U.S. and there are privacy concerns that this will cause footage of a patient's most intimate and private moments to be accessible by numerous hospital employees, hackers, and criminals.
gVoL TIL When Charles Manson didn’t receive any gifts for Christmas one year he responded by stealing all of his classmates toys and burning them.
OGgmL TIL that only 64 kids that have played in the Little League World Series since 1947 have made it to the majors
m10vE TIL that Jack Woolams, the test pilot for the first American jet fighter, wore a gorilla mask and a bowler hat while flying so that any sightings of the jet by other pilots wouldn't be believed by people on the ground.
QNVNk TIL that Buzz Aldrin was known among his fellow astronauts to be very difficult to work with, to the point that Neil Armstrong was offered the chance to replace Aldrin with someone else for the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Armstrong thought it over for a day before choosing to stick with Aldrin.