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TIL that in 1985 French Military Agents bombed a green peace vessel in a New Zealand harbor that was there to protest French Nuclear testing on a nearby island. The blast killed one crewmember.

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worWE TIL the alleged Goebbels quote "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." has been repeated in numerous books and articles and on thousands of web pages, yet there is no primary source for it.
QJdm6 TIL that Smithfield Foods, based in Virginia and the largest producer of pork in the world, has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Chinese holding company since 2013
Abdx TIL that Nylon is made by a reaction between two liquid components in which the Nylon can be continuously removed to form a string
ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”
OGoAL TIL about the Kanem–Bornu Empire, which originated around 700 AD, and lasted as the Bornu Empire until 1900. Remnants of it still exist even today as traditional states within Nigeria.