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TIL Henry Ford spied on his employees at home to ensure they were living virtuously.

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woEKE TIL that many/most unearthed Egyptian mummies were eaten by Europeans or used in disturbing ways
nWJr9 TIL 26 children and a bus driver were kidnapped and held for ransom in an underground trailer in California in 1976
095M TIL due to the decline in fertility that tends to accompany wealth, human population is expected to stabilize at near 9 billion by 2050.
rR8Lx TIL that Eddie Van Halen’s method of guitar playing was so new and unique that tablature was created to teach guitarists to play it (explanation around 11:14)
epBZ4 TIL, Croissants are an Austrian invention, created after their victory over the Ottoman empire (1683), the crescent shape representing the Turkish flag. It was the Austrian emperor’s daughter Marie-Antoinette who introduced it the France.