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TIL: McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli

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Znlp TIL When Andy Serkis (appearing as Gollum) delivered his acceptance speech for “Best Visual Performance,” in the Two Towers, at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, the speech itself won a Hugo award for “Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form”
e0oEL TIL Steve Jobs shared details of the original Macintosh with Bill Gates to excite him about the future of their partnership. Bill Gates and the Microsoft team started referring to the Macintosh as project "Sand", a reverse engineered acronym for "Steve's amazing new device."
yVLjX TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
kJ5Ye TIL that during WWII, Ford's mile-long ‘Willow Run Liberator Bomber Assembly Line” produced B-24’s at a rate of one every hour. A symbol of American wartime industrial might, it exemplified how industry (and millions of women) pivoted to support the war effort, a vital part of the Allied victory:
m4LO TIL that ice cubes found at the Chinese KFC chain were 12 times dirtier than toilet water-and 19 times the national bacteria level standard