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TIL Early versions of the Jimmy Croce 1973 smash hit, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" included the line, "meaner than a concentration camp dog," but Croce decided that it was unpleasant to the ear and it was also offensive to Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.

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vjkr TIL The two “M’s” in M&Ms represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr. (son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey’s Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie).
x6pKb TIL that emergency contraceptive pills aren’t abortifacients in any way you would define a start of pregnancy
WmYA TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
vBJK TIL that in 1998, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years for killing two gay men instead of life requested by the prosecuter. He justified it by stating “I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level … and I’d be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”
pYwyp TIL The first chocolate bar was made in 1847. Before that, chocolate was exclusively a drink