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TIL that the Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek sold cocaine to all sides of WWI, making tremendous profits for the company and neutral Holland.

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pPVZ Til the correct term for my relationship with my wife’s sister’s husband is co-brother in-law. He’s my co-bro.
9D8G TIL that Timothy Dexter (1748 – 1806), an American businessman, faked his own death to see how people would react. About 3,000 people attended Dexter’s mock wake. When Dexter did not see his wife cry, he caned her for not grieving enough.
e0wX6 TIL that 'family values' activist Terry Rakolta wrote to several advertisers asking for them to pull their ads from the show, Married... With Children. Some did but the media coverage it got is what made it a major hit. The cast and crew sent Rakolta flowers every year they were renewed.
9GoQ TIL that in 2009, 78% of schools in Atlanta altered the answers on elementary students’ state exams to produce higher scores that would bring bonuses to administration, leading to criminal racketeering convictions.
rom4 TIL Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (YKK) produces nearly 7 billion zippers a year. Their every stage of the zipper making process is in house i.e. from smelting their own brass and building the zipper-making machines to making the boxes they ship in.