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

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xkRk TIL nude means “unclothed” while naked means “unprotected”
Ak5g TIL George Lucas gave a speech in 1988 to Congress about the need to protect films from being altered. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”
9KO7 TIL that the fuel efficiency of the Saturn V rocket was less than five inches/gallon.
yQ94e TIL that pork is a "red meat" for nutritional studies (which tie red meat consumption to heart disease and cancer), and the "other white meat" phrase was just a marketing campaign by the pork industry.
pJEN TIL that anti-occupation Rabbis have actually volunteered to be human shields in order to defend Palestinian villages from destruction