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TIL The Headquarters of Campbell Soup has been in Camden, New Jersey since 1869. It has since decided to remain in the city despite the economic decline of the neighborhood so it may be a positive influence in its future revitalization

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aDlN TIL It is thought that the first vibrator may have been made by Cleopatra, by filling a tube with bees.
kOjR4 TIL about Beate Sirota, an Austrian-born Jew raised in Japan. She was educated at the German School of Tokyo for six years, but her parents deemed it "too Nazi" and moved her to the American school. She helped write the Japanese constitution in 1946 ensuring equality for women is enshrined in law.
NNkE TIL that Jon Huntsman Jr., our new Russian Ambassador, has extensive business ties to Russia through his father (John Huntsman Sr., Founder & Chairman of Huntsman Corp)
1m6r TIL a time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist’s 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
W9eA TIL there is a lake on the Phillipines which has an island in it. Which has a lake on it. Which has an island in it.