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TIL in 1922, Americans were consuming 1 million Eskimo Pies a day that resulted in the rise of the cost of cocoa beans by 50% and single handily lifted Ecuador’s economy out of a depression

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b6Z0a TIL There is a manhole cover floating somewhere in space, considered to be the fastest man-made object, blasted up there by a nuclear explosion.
O8aX TIL that during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983], produced and co-directed by Stephen Spielberg, a helicopter-crash stunt gone wrong resulted in the decapitation-death of star Vic Murrow and two young child actors, all of which was caught on tape by three cameras.
jRkv TIL a Bosnian man faked his own death just to see who would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed up.
nWVBG TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist
4XORN TIL that critics of the Golden Rule have devised the so-called Platinum Rule, which states "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them, not as you would have them do unto you."