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TIL James May was fired from Autocar magazine after he put a hidden message using the initial letter in each page

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jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.
DQvlP TIL that the US Olympics committee owns the Olympics trademark and bans any US businesses from using the word Olympic in their name unless they are located in Washington State.
ADxXo TIL of the Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave dating to 5000BC, containing the remains of 34 bodies, bearing some of the earliest evidence of habitual warfare, including fatal adze, axe and arrow wounds to the back of the head. It has been suggested that this site represents an early form of genocide.
9wJpm TIL of the Samoan branch of the Nazi Party. Support for the Nazi Party was strongest among mixed-race settlers of German descent in the territory. The branch was criticized by the German consul to New Zealand, Walter Hellenthal, over its poor organisation and the racial make-up of its members
6ElJw TIL Around 40,000 Irish fought for the Confederate Army in the US Civil War