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TIL Kingsford Charcoal originated from Ford Motor Company selling scrap wood from the construction of their Model T vehicles.

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nWGy9 TIL in 1982, 7 people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. James William Lewis sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." While he was convicted of extortion, he was never charged with the murders.
4Xl6J TIL there is an entrance fee to enter the cemetary to visit the tomb of Karl Marx
X01VD TIL octopuses kill themselves after laying eggs and its related to self injurious behavior in humans
oBayr TIL Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, established the world's first rocket laboratories in Bangalore during the 18th century. And, in addition, led an economic renaissance which made Mysore the world's most industrialized region with per-capita income higher than The Netherlands and UK!
M7L08 TIL about Russian Ostern Movies, heavily inspired by American western films, the Ostern Genre was usually set in the wild Russian steppes at around the time of the Russian civil war, a lot of those movies are available for free on the internet