The "Today I Learned" Thread • Page 13

TIL: Drumsticks aren’t considered ice cream due to the amount of vegetable oils used with the cream. Thus making them a “frozen dairy dessert”

 

TIL Death Row Records released a Christmas album

 

TIL: In 2006, an employee at Coca-Cola attempted to secretly sell trade secrets to Pepsi for $1.5 million. Pepsi refused and actually contacted Coca-Cola to rat them out.

The employee got 8 years in prison

 

Alpha-Bits cereal was discontinued in 2021

 

Wtf really???

You know… Now that you mention it, I definitely have no recollection of seeing them on grocery runs or Target trips the past few years. I must’ve just never noticed lol

 

TIL: Cory Booker and RuPaul are cousins

 

TIL: There’s a city in Tennessee named Paris, which has a 70-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower

Paris, Tennessee - Wikipedia

Most notably, Bob Nastanovich of Pavement currently resides there

 

TIL that “absolutepunk.net” redirects to Chorus, but the banner image changes to the old scratchy heart.