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TIL There were no red M&Ms from 1976 till 1986

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rVN0 TIL of Michael Nicholson, a man from Michigan who has one bachelor’s degree, two associate’s degrees, 22 master’s degrees, three specialist degrees and one doctoral degree, making him the most credentialed person in history.
64gm TIL Mythbusters was going to investigate the insecurities and flaws of the RFID chips in credit cards, but they were strong-armed out of it by the legal counsel of the credit card industry
E1Jdp TIL the ‘X’ shaped Confederate flag was no more than a battle flag and never the adopted flag of the confederacy.
oRVxE TIL that Nobel prize winner James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix structure, invested in Facebook early and is now a multi-billionaire worth $20,000,000,000 US dollars.
9w6wm TIL that core samples provided evidence that the tug of Jupiter and Venus has caused shifts in Earth’s orbit every 405,000 years for at least 415 Million years.