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TIL Winston Churchill was the 3rd great grandson of a Major in the Revolutionary War.

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6rrw TIL Shia LaBeouf once said The Kingdom of Crystal Skull dropped the ball on Indiana Jones legacy. His relationship with Steven Spielberg had been ruined since then, with Spilberg saying to LaBeouf: “There’s a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there’s a time to sell cars.”
lo7ra TIL that in 1959 Guinness dropped 150,000 special “messages in a bottle” into the Atlantic Ocean to celebrate its 200th birthday. Making it one of the longest ad campaigns ever.
78l6b TIL there was a 22-percent increase in productivity among workers who had been given glasses and those over 50, productivity increased by nearly 32 percent.
VMoOB TIL, Bayer sold HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, thousands of whom later died of AIDS.
QNx7L TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904