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TIL 86 year old mathmetician/pianist Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent rules against alcohol in the Army.

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ewQn TIL in 1980 16 stranded and frozen Danish fishermen were rescued and after being given a warm drink all 16 dropped dead from constricted capillaries reopening almost all at once, causing a sudden drop in blood pressure.
GY8mG TIL the NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares.
6jAJ TIL in 2012, Mars Inc. (which makes Twix) announced a 250 calorie cap on all single-serve confectionary by the end of 2013. The result is that many of their products have now been downsized to meet these requirements. Twix have been cut down from 58g to 50g, marking a 14 per cent reduction
b9a6Q TIL soccer was a popular and successful sport in the US up until the 1930s. However a series of disputes between rival leagues and FIFA (called the Soccer Wars) , and the onset of the Great Depression led to a massive decline in the popularity of the sport.
j4xa TIL a 10 year old used his college savings to buy William “The Fridge” Perry’s Super Bowl ring and to give it back to him