W7b4B TIL that an enzyme called pectinase is the reason for canned oranges not having any pith or strings.
9wXyB TIL in 2015 Cheerios (labeled Gluten Free) were recalled, because they in fact contained gluten | "Many in the celiac disease community [had] gotten sick from the contaminated Cheerios"
nWMKd TIL in 2002 Eminem settled a lawsuit by paying $100,000 (roughly £70,000) to a man named John Guerra after Em reportedly pulled out an unloaded gun and hit Guerra in the face in response to seeing Guerra kiss his then-wife in the parking lot of a nightclub in 2000.
4kWyb TIL that Muhammad Ali (as Cassius Clay) recorded and released a version of "Stand By Me" as a single in 1964, charting on the Billboard "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles".
x6n00 TIL that on December 6 1990, an MB-326 military jet of the Italian Air Force crashed into a school building at Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other students and staff. The pilot managed to eject before the crash.
5VRyD TIL that apparently in the 16th century an Italian friar by the name of Francesco Calcagno was executed for practising and promoting sodomy, as well as claiming that Jesus had been in a homosexual relationship with Saint John.
M7pEB TIL Atari's legal team made up a fictitious lawsuit in order to acquire the blueprint/source-code for Nintendo's CIC anti-piracy chip from the U.S. Patent Office.
j6bkp TIL that the famous ancient complaint letter to copper merchant Ea-nāṣir was not the only one. In his house there were a mass of them, including by people named Arbituram, Appa, Imgur-Sin, Illsu-Elsatsu and Ili-idinnam.
0dxyM TIL that there were different "fonts" used in the days of handwritten documents and the one you used indicated your social status or even gender
grbB7 TIL of Operation Coldfeet where two CIA operatives parachuted onto abandoned Soviet drift stations in the arctic to gather intelligence. Because they were out of reach of helicopters and ships, they were extracted using the Fulton Skyhook system—snatched off the ice by a plane without it landing.
LQGYv TIL Hitachi stopped producing their "Magic Wand" because it was a famous vibrator but were convinced to restart sales, removing their name and calling it "Original Magic Wand".
b6bP4 TIL the only Cheyenne battle chief killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was called Lame White Man.