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TIL Unilever used to have a whaling fleet

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graL4 TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2
nrjB TIL that Hitler planned to reduce the “non-German population” in occupied countries by “persuading them that vaccination and the like are really most dangerous”.
GAnDE TIL about Sunflower Syndrome. A poorly understood type of epilepsy, sufferers are drawn to seeking out and looking at bright light (including the sun). This results in a brief hand-waving gesture across the face, or eye-flickering seizure up to hundreds of times a day.
ADaL4 TIL that one of the 10 largest pyramids in the world is actually a Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee
ADLBl TIL the Aegean Sea is named after Aegeus, father of Theseus. Aegeus told Theseus to put up white sails when returning if he was successful killing the Minotaur. Theseus forgot & Aegeus subsequently drowned himself in the sea.