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TIL that in the 1970s Hostess paid DC to run ads in DC comic books, and each one was a one-page comic that led to the villain getting stopped thanks to Hostess fruit pies or Twinkies.

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MBl8 TIL Dr. Hans Munch, a German physician at Auschwitz, refused to take part in the inmate murders there. He designed his experiments to be elaborate ruses to protect them, since those who were no longer useful were usually killed.
p8YG TIL: There is and artist in Washington DC who painted self portraits after taking every type of drug.
NZAP TIL there was an experiment done on Caucasian 3rd graders in 1968 called the “blue-eyed/brown-eyed” exercise which segregated the children by eye color. The exercise was held the day after Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination with the purpose of teaching students the effects of being a minority.
woo4E TIL that chimpanzees are NOT 5 times stronger than humans. A chimpanzee's muscular performance can in fact only produce around 1.35-1.5 times the performance that human muscle can produce. This means that a large and athletic person will be as strong as a chimpanzee.
0d9Mp TIL Last year 93yo actor James Hong became the oldest person ever to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has over 600 acting credits spanning 70 years.