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TIL that Tic-Tacs were launched under the name “Refreshing Mints.” They changed the name a year later based on the distinctive clicking noise made by opening and closing the package.

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VMNaD TIL that there are stars that can be lower than the temperature of the human body, called "Y dwarfs"
OoXAY TIL In 1184 a disaster appeared in Erfurt, Germany which lead to 60 nobles drowning in liquid excrement.
nWdZo TIL that the bug making Gandhi more prone to nuking you in the game Civilization I is just a myth. The character is no more or less likely to drop nukes as the other AIs.
p8nnG TIL that during the filming of Schindler's List (1993), when Ralph Fiennes was dressed in his full SS uniform, a Polish woman called out and said “how much she loved his uniform, and wished ‘all of you were back here protecting all of us again.’”
QJOke TIL about Otávio Jordão da Silva, a 20 year old Brazilian soccer/football referee who was stoned, beheaded, and quartered by spectators after he stabbed a player who punched him for making a controversial call. His head was put on a stake in the field.