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TIL it’s yin not ying

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VMW1B TIL of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. An archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland which is the last piece of French territory in North America.
nerbr TIL of Aeroflot Flight 593 - a plane that crashed, causing the deaths of all on board, because the pilot let his kids fly it.
JYaX8 TIL that by 3400 B.C. the Sumerians were growing the opium poppy and called it Hul Gil, the 'joy plant'.
X0jjP TIL J.R.R. Tolkien loathed Walt Disney, seeing his work as corrupt, deceptive commercialism. Disney films nauseated him, and he saw Snow White as a vulgar mockery of mythology. He refused to let Disney adapt The Lord of the Rings.
nMgP TIL that George Washington Carver did not actually invent peanut butter. Peanut butter has been around since as early as the Aztecs.