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TIL King’s Hawaiian Bread was founded by an Okinawan immigrant to Hawaii who based it on the sweet bread that fellow sugar plantation workers from Portugal made and is no longer made in Hawaii but comes from Torrance in Los Angeles

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ne0gr TIL about the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain which was founded in 1977 for people proud of their incompetence. The club was forced to closed when the founder sold a book which became a bestseller and the club receiving thousands of applications "Even as failures, we failed"
l7oP7 TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. The professorship is named after the antiquarian John Disney, who endowed the position in 1851.
owbE TIL that in 1971, a chimpanzee community began to divide, and by 1974, it had split completely into two opposing communities. For the next 4 years this conflict led to the complete annihilation of one of the chimpanzee communities and became the first ever documented case of warfare in nonhumans
epnJJ TIL Using programming to model entire wind farms and account for the wake of individual turbines increases energy production over all.
MDY8 TIL Pocahontas died when she was only 21/22 and was never romantically involved with John Smith as Hollywood would have you believe