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TIL There was a two month period in 1617 where both Pocahontas and Squanto were in London. Pocahontas lived with the Treasurer of the Virginia Company and Squanto was living with the Treasurer for the Newfoundland Company. They lived only a few hundred yards from each other.
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Submitted July 02, 2022 at 07:15PM by UndyingCorn
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TIL that Paul McCartney in 1967 once let a man who claimed to be Jesus Christ into his home and a recording session for The Beatles song 'Fixing a Hole'
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Submitted July 02, 2022 at 06:11PM by benp242
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TIL St. Louis Bread Company is referred to as Panera outside of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The name change to Panera came about in 1997 during the company’s interstate expansion. It continues to operate as Saint Louis Bread Company in the Greater St. Louis area, where it has over 100 locations
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Submitted July 02, 2022 at 11:04PM by Least_Insane_User
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TIL that Best Foods mayo and Hellman’s mayo are one and the same. So if their logos and packaging look similar, it’s because when Best Foods bought Hellmans they decided to merge the branding to retain Hellman’s loyal customers. Another example is Dreyer’s and Edy’s ice cream.
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Submitted July 02, 2022 at 11:14PM by doowapeedoo
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TIL the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) was invented by British retailer W H Smiths because they were moving to a computerized warehouse in 1967. It was approved as a ISO standard in 1970.
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Submitted July 02, 2022 at 09:19PM by TIGHazard
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TIL That Alaska Was Hit By A Megatsunami, 4th Largest One On Earth, In 2015
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 01:35AM by Akemi_Tachibana
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TIL that research shows that people who laugh at dark jokes have higher IQs and report less aggressive tendencies .
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 03:16AM by Smart_Emu_9084
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TIL the USA is not a young country anymore. Independence in 1776 makes it older than about two-thirds of the 195 sovereign states recognised by the UN.
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 03:48AM by ScissorNightRam
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TIL in 1996, A group of UFO conspiracy theorists from Long Island, New York led by a retired court bailiff had stolen radioactive materials and planned to assassinate Suffolk County politicians with deadly toothpaste, to expose the existence of aliens.
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 05:04AM by delano1998
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TIL Galen argued that the liver must be the primary organ of the body because of its role in the production of the humours. The word for "liver" was often substituted for “heart” in ancient Greek poetry, in phrases like "hit in the liver"
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 03:57AM by vancouver_reader
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TIL that a German Cinema offered free tickets to the premiere of Schindler's List to members of the right-wing AfD party in Germany
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 07:41AM by Madarathequincy
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TIL that agriculture workers in the U.S. face a variety of mental health issues, including a nearly-doubled chance of suicide compared to the general working population.
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 08:27AM by 99-bottlesofbeer
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TIL that Lobsang Rampa, Tibetan Monk and bestselling author of The Third Eye, was in fact Cyril Hoskin, the son of a plumber from Devonshire. When this became known, he stated he was possessed by a Tibetan monk after he fell out of a tree in his back yard whilst tying to photograph an owl.
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Submitted July 03, 2022 at 11:02AM by Lupercali
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