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TIL Japanese mayonnaise Kewpie, was started in 1925 by Tochiro Nakashima, whose goal was to create a condiment that made eating vegetables more enjoyable

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e0J0b TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who was sentanced to 126 years in prison for killing 11 people, then was sentanced to another 400 years for killing another 60+ inmates, but was released after 34 years as per Brazillian law
0dJn1 TIL it was Ben Sliney’s first day as FAA’s National Operations Manager when he ordered the National Ground Stop on Sept. 11, 2001.
EgPw TIL the shortest recorded war lasted only 45 minutes!
W8rY TIL Gardiners Island in New York is one of the United States’ largest private islands, has been owned by the Gardiner family for almost 400 years, and was granted to them by the King of England. It also has New York State’s oldest building on it, built in 1639.
VMvv4 TIL that the most expensive city for a date night (dinner for two, bottle of wine, two cinema tickets, taxi back home) is Oslo, Norway, at $159, while the cheapest is Ankara, Turkey, at $36