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TIL Grapple - the grape flavoured apples are defunct - and I'm heartbroken

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BgapD TIL the 1904 Olympic Marathon only 14 men crossed the finish: one after hitchhiking, one after napping, and one—the winner—after drinking rat poison
eKA4 TIL: Australia had an unofficial mascot during the 2000 Olympics named “Fatso the Fat Arsed Wombat” who not only appeared in one of the races but also had a statue which sold for A$80,450.
QNLvL TIL that 15 years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy had already written and published a poem about 1984
mxE4v TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
gM7ML TIL as a result of increased popularity of crack cocaine, the number of cocaine-related hospital emergencies in the USA increased 110% in 1986.