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TIL that the City of London Corporation allows businesses to vote depending on the number of employees

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p8erp TIL During WWII chemists dissolved in acid large Nobel Prize medals with the engraved names of Max von Laue and James Franck to hide them from Germans. Solution of black liquid in two unmarked jars sat on a laboratory shelf. After the war the Nobel Foundation recast them and returned to the owners.
jNGOp TIL about Minik, one of several Greenland Inuits who were once part of a living exhibit at the American Natural History Museum. After Minik's father died of TB, his skeleton was put on display in the museum
W7Ev8 TIL that over 95% of farm raised salmon are deaf
wLjJo TIL in 2009 in a ‘David vs Goliath’ lawsuit, a small time inventor won a $23 million lawsuit against Ford auto company for patent infringement.
69XGl TIL that two years before filming his famous unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, Nosferatu, director F. W. Murnau filmed an unauthorized adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide called The Head of Janus with future Dracula star Bela Lugosi in a supporting role