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TIL that the British RAF in WWII started a propaganda campaign that eating carrots improved your eyesight. They did this so the Nazis wouldn’t suspect the RAF’s use of radar.

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QJdyE TIL about Eric Lundgren who went to prison for a year because he was said to have violated copyrights and counterfeiting Microsoft Windows Restore CD's which he distributed with refurbished PC's. Corporations such as MS, Dell and HP give these discs away for free.
m18MY TIL that 65% of cancer survivors surveyed by war on cancer said that they had been ghosted by friends or family after their diagnosis.
6945Q TIL That there are beauty pageants that focus on natural beauty and love from ones community
bkpE TIL that Japan has nearly twice as many 7-Elevens as the United States, with 2,079 stores in Tokyo alone.
VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.