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TIL Heinz was caught underfilling its ketchup bottles and was ordered to overfill its ketchup bottles for the next year.

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KOnbQ TIL the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are a paid promotion costing $50,000 each.
4kVPa TIL about the famous American novelist Winston Churchill who was the reason why the British prime minister referred to himself as Winston Spencer Churchill. They met on occasion, but gradually Spencer Churchill’s rise to power steamrolled the American into obscurity.
GJAG TIL that Don McLean was asked to explain what the song ‘American Pie’ meant, he responded with, “It means I’ll never have to work again..”
KYAbJ TIL: About Queen Radavalona I, "The Mad Monarch of Madagascar". She enforced isolationist policies, hunted down Christians, repelled the French, and made tax payments payable through forced labor. She eliminated her mom by starvation to not spill her own blood. The population dropped in half.
ADWeo TIL contact lenses were first proposed by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1508. He described a method of directly altering corneal power by either submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye.