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TIL Many of the techniques pioneered by slave owners in the 1800s are widely used in business management today.

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y0Wa TIL Norway knighted a penguin in 2008. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard, and his full name is Sir Nils Olav II
yV8jJ TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.
x515 TIL that 1 in 5 people in Singapore are millionaires.
VBV78 TIL That a binary star system passed through the outer boundary of the solar system ~70,000 years ago, which would've been visible to humans living in the northern hemisphere at the time.
4XPyg TIL Candy Land was invented to cheer up children living in polio wards. Polio paralyzed many of its victims and the game offered the illusion of movement. Allowing the sick children the loose themselves in the sweet imaginative world of the game.