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TIL The Quaker Oats Company financed the original Willy Wonka movie in exchange for the right to make Wonka brand candy bars.

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N7mpJ TIL of a play called the "Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda." "It critiques acclaimed musical Hamilton through a depiction of a fictionalized version of Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is visited by several historical figures missing from the musical in a style similar to Dickens' A Christmas Carol."
N7k7E TIL that due to the structure of Planet Earth, there are actually subterranean mountains some 410 miles down below the surface, with some being taller than Mount Everest.
jN9Qv TIL Old West Saloon Bartenders hung towels on the bar so that imbibers could wipe the beer foam off their mouths. They were “community towels.”
p8op4 TIL "brunet" is the masculine version of "brunette"
7kXx TIL gold on Earth came from colliding neutron stars