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TIL: Sanji was originally Naruto (and Naruto was originally a chef)

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D14PY TIL that Milton Hershey kept his employees working during the Great Depression by having them construct buildings in Hershey, PA including a school, arena and hotel. When a steam shovel was brought in for construction, Hershey told his foreman to get rid of the shovel and hire 40 men instead.
XEPQ6 TIL Contrary to popular lore, there was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929. One contemporary reference to the myth was written by a British reporter who had been very badly burned in the market himself, the reporter’s name was Winston Churchill.
WXJ9 TIL in 2012 a 6-year-old girl threw a temper tantrum so extreme she was handcuffed and taken to jail from her kindergarten class.
6Eo68 TIL the Vandals (origin of the word "vandalism"), notorious for the sack of Rome, actually negotiated with the then Pope and only raided the city's wealth but left the buildings intact
N7e08 TIL that there are over 200 bodies on Mount Everest that are used as landmarks.