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TIL the soft drink Mello Yello was named after Donovan's "Mellow Yellow," which was written about a vibrator. This makes Mello Yello the only mass-produced soda named after a dildo

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xVQng TIL of Charles Lightoller, one of many individuals who used his personal boats to assist in the evacuation of French and British troops at Dunkirk in 1940. Prior to this, he was the senior-most officer to survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic and enforced the "women and children first" order
5Yayn TIL that sometimes fossils will form with opal instead of stone!
ava0 TIL During the Prohibition Act, the government poisoned industrial alcohol in order to scare off bootleggers. As a result, around 10,000 people died until the Prohibition was repealed.
oZAR TIL Audie Murphy, when asked after the war why he had seized the machine gun of a burning M10 tank destroyer and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, “They were killing my friends.”
v1bG4 TIL Apple doesn't own the iOS name and trademark but licenses it from Cisco Systems