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TIL that Cast Away’s unopened FedEx box contained two bottles of salsa verde (per a deleted scene in the script)

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vOGB TIL any American with a DUI charge, no matter how old, will be denied entrance to Canada.
vD78 TIL An April Fool’s Day Joke on the BBC resulted in a number of people contacting them in order to discover how they could grow their own Spaghetti Trees. At the time, Spaghetti was fairly unknown in the UK. It is regarded as one of the biggest hoaxes ever from a reputable news establishment.
XENd8 TIL that PEZ candy was invented in Austria, and the three letters are the first, middle and last letters of PffeffErminZ, the German/Austrian word for peppermint.
KYVmE TIL, about the Anatomy Riot of 1788, when New York’s poor revolted against the city’s grave-robbing medical establishment.
EyGW TIL: The Integral Fast Reactor can’t meltdown, is 100 times more efficient and recycles its own waste. The government killed it in 1994