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TIL: Afghan opium production has risen 1500% since the U.S. invasion in 2001.

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W77o9 TIL about the Krupp family. A 400 year old dynasty of weapons manufactures that been selling weapons since the thirty years war and were the premier weapons manufactures for Germany during both world wars. They still exist today after merging with Thyssen to form the ThyssenKrupp corporation.
rnRo TIL that From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror, Death Proof, and Kill Bill all exist in the same universe, and that From Dusk Till Dawn actually happens last, chronologically
gVw7 TIL In the TV show “Home Improvement”, the “Tool Time” audience is the actual live studio audience.
gl9D TIL When Billy Idol’s cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ song “Mony Mony” reached #1 on the charts in 1987, it dethroned Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now”, which was also a cover of a Tommy James and the Shondells song.
BgwRD TIL In contrast to high treason, petty treason was a crime in England which involved the killing of a social superior seen as breaking the social hierarchy; such as a servant killing their master. Unlike with high treason, men would be hanged but not quartered, women would be burned but not drawn.