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TIL that each color in a roll of Smarties candy has its own flavor, and that green is strawberry

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PPLL TIL that printers leave unique signatures on every page they print, so each piece of paper can be tracked down to the printer. This also explains why you cannot print in black and white if you have no yellow ink.
0Q65 TIL of Thad Roberts, a former intern at NASA, who served a 6 year sentence in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks gathered from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission
Abvd TIL North Korean exists because Taiwan exists: China was prevented by the US 7th Fleet from invading Taiwan in June 1950, so Mao Zedong announced China would enter the Korean war with the invasion force originally intended for Taiwan, and by October this force saved North Korea from imminent defeat
PyMO TIL that on the set of the Wizard of Oz, the actors playing the Scarecrow, Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wizard resented being “upstaged” by a woman and refused to even talk to Judy Garland between takes. The only friend Garland made on set was Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch.
OoxAe TIL NASA firefighters used military armored personnel carriers during every space shuttle launch in case they needed to rescue astronauts at the launch site.