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TIL the person who invented dumpsters name was dempster, and they where originally called Dempster Dumpsters

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yQG1a TIL In old Eastern Europe folklore vampires are obsessed with counting. Millet or poppy seeds were placed on the ground at the grave site of a presumed vampire, in order to keep the vampire occupied all night counting. Hence Count von Count on Sesame Street.
grlRL TIL some historians call the Seven Years' War World War 0 because of how widespread it was and how many world powers were involved.
9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
W7glL TIL South Korea trained a secret military unit, unit 684, to assassinate North Korea's leader. Civilians were recruited to an island where the harsh training they endured killed 7 members. Desperate to escape, the unit revolted in 1971, killing 18 guards to escape to mainland South Korea.
pYNEp TIL the leaf sheep sea slug can perform photosynthesis by eating algae and absorbing the chloroplasts