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TIL Samuel German invented German chocolate cake while working for Baker’s Chocolate, which is named after James Baker. They’re both eponymous.

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p5ZZ TIL Kent Hovind, prominent figure of the young earth creationist movement, and often cited as an expert by YECs, has never earned a college degree in any field of science, has never received any accredited college degree, and is in prison for multiple criminal convictions.
VL1Z TIL SETI is the only organization in the world that publicly has a protocol set in place in the event a signal is received from extraterrestrial life.
xM7w TIL over 3500 unpublished whistleblower communications, including the US government’s No Fly List, 5 GB of Bank of America leaks, and insider information from 20 right-wing organizations were once in possession of Wikileaks…until the files were destroyed by the departing spokesperson.
mxboY TIL in 1941 the British and Soviet Union invaded Iran. This was to secure a supply line to Russia, secure the Iranian oil fields, and deny Nazi Germany a route of advance to Baku and British India.
KPVR TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if everyone gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”