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TIL that the blue M&M replaced the tan M&M in 1995, people had the option to vote on which color they wanted to replace tann with and blue won with 54% of the votes

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86kP TIL The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t actually Dutch, they are German. Upon arrival, they were saying “Deutsch” which is German for, well, German. Germany in the their native language is “Deutschland.” English speaking Americans just assumed they were saying “Dutch.”
e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".
JYbQ TIL Peter Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos. [Fixed]
OKVe TIL: the word “thug” comes from Thuggees, who were professional robbers and murderers that terrorized India for 600 years. They were eventually destroyed by the British
ADPX4 TIL of Movile Cave. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely Chemosynthesis. The atmosphere deep in the cave it like an alien planet, and more than 30 of the species found inside cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.