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TIL that during his military service musician Johnny Cash was the first westerner to learn that Joseph Stalin had died

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49Ng TIL the inventors of Bubble Wrap were originally trying to make 3D plastic wallpaper.
W70AA TIL in Castel Sant'Angelo, Hall of Cupid and Psyche was the bedroom of the apartment built by Pope Paul III Farnese in the 1540s. Here Psyche is the personification of the soul (Psyché means "soul" in Greek) and the tasks she underwent represent the path to spiritual elevation towards salvation.
yQjwe TIL that two window-washers and a health food store owner founded Unadulterated Food Products in 1972. After creating a batch of apple juice that accidentally fermented in the bottle and caused the caps to snap off, they began calling the drink Snapple which later became the company name.
Qd5e TIL that the clearest body of freshwater known in the world is “The blue lake” or “Rotomairewhenua” in New Zealand
R7NXw TIL in the 50s there was a nuclear bomb test in the Australian Outback. Aboriginals thought a spirit killed all of the kangaroos for them. They ate them and died of radiation poisoning.