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TIL it's national cheese fondue day and bunch more others

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NX5PN TIL that Natale Olivieri created Yoo-hoo after several failed attempts to bottle chocolate drinks that would spoil shortly thereafter. After Olivieri observed his wife canning fruits and vegetables, Olivieri adopted the same heat processing techniques and began officially bottling Yoo-hoo in 1928.
PYBLO TIL: In 1900, William Clark, resigned his Montana (MT) senate seat after an investigation found he had won with bribery. In January 1901, a newly elected MT legislature, most of whom had also received financial support from Clark, again elected him to the Senate. Clark fully served out this term.
96R7 TIL that The International Astronomical Union names all mountains on Saturn’s moon Titan after mountains in Tolkien’s work.
neavG TIL that Sir David Attenborough always wears a blue shirt and khaki pants to help with continuity when filming months and sometimes thousands of miles apart.
1aAp7 TIL agnosticism is the view that the existence of God is unknown or unknowable. A believer in God can be agnostic, and so can an atheist.