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TIL Quaker Oats was not founded by, nor has it ever had anything to do, with real Quakers.

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joLR TIL - “The Blue Marble” is the only whole-earth photo taken by human hands. No one has since been far enough from earth to take a similar picture.
ANMPa TIL Arthur Uther Pendragon, born John Timothy Rothwell, became convinced that he was the reincarnation of the mythical king after reading a book. He became a druid and formed the Loyal Arthurian Warband, a Druidic group focusing on environmentalism.
MljV TIL as of 2011, there are more barrels of bourbon aging in the state of Kentucky (4.7 million) than there are people who live there (4.3 million).
0wmNM TIL At the end of WW2 30,000 copies of Munro Leaf's 'The Story of Ferdinand' were given out to German children in order to encourage peace. It had previously been banned under Hitler.
oB5XA TIL that the person who is largely credited for inventing the polygraph machine is the same person who created Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth.