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TIL that Jelly Belly takes the candy that doesn’t meet their quality standards and sells it for half price

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kO7bg TIL that if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed
KYMB9 TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”
wo8nM TIL PFC Ralph E. Dias, A US Marine was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action that occured on November 12, 1969 in Vietnam. Although severely wounded multiple times by enemy fire, he continued to throw grenades at an enemy bunker until it was destroyed and he was mortally wounded.
KYX1E TIL in 1927, 15-year-old tennis player Sidney Wood became the youngest man ever to play Wimbledon. In 1931, aged 19, he became the only person to win Wimbledon by default when his final opponent Frank Shields (Brooke's grandfather) withdrew with an injury. Sidney Wood died in 2009 at the age of 97.