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TIL that Newman’s Own donates 100% of their profits to charity and when its founder Paul Newman was alive, he donated all of his income and royalty earnings.

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rRadM TIL if a bee colony wants a new queen they select a few larvae irrespective of gender and feed them copious amounts of Royal Jelly so that the larvae develop queen morphology.
kOj5 TIL that in 1979 there was an anthrax leak in Russia, killing about 100 people, and was covered up as mad cow disease
PYWew TIL supermodel Naomi Campbell once co-founded a restaurant called Fashion Café. The menu included a $20 salad with 2 tomato slices, a glass of champagne and a pack of cigarettes. The restaurant flopped.
dEMK TIL during ancient and medieval times alcohol was not only a more popular beverage but likely the more healthy choice since the purity of water was questionable in those times.
RWoQ TIL that the smallest Hawaiian Island, widely known as The Forbidden Isle, is owned by two brothers that inherited from their great-great-grandmother who purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000 in gold. They have turned down all offers to sell it including $1 billion from the U.S. government