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TIL Oreos are the imitation knock-offs of Hydrox cookies that debuted four years earlier in 1908.

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GRxj TIL that oranges are not even in the top ten list of common foods when it comes to vitamin C levels.
8aPMP TIL Rose Leslie who plays Ygritte in Game of Thrones grew up in Aberdeen's Lickleyhead Castle, and is a descendant of Charles II.
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
VO84 TIL in September, 2014, GlaxoSmithKline accidentally dumped 45 litres of concentrated live polio virus solution into the Lasne river in Belgium.
gbRL TIL: Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”.