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TIL Oneida Silverware company started as a free love commune in upstate New York

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awdA9 TIL, Elliott Rodger's complaints about so-called "rejections" from women as his excuse for a killing rampage in 2014, we're actually a perception he had that manifested after doing what others would call 'self-rejecting' and being 'closed off' from society.
m0xo TIL staunch Republican actor John Wayne sent an angry letter to Ronald Reagan in 1972 accusing him of spreading falsehoods about the Carter treaty with Panama to return the Canal. “I’ll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people.”
8yOP TIL Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, realized his success as a high school dropout might convince teenagers to quit school - so in 1993 he went back to school and got his GED.
41aN TIL that Zurich is the richest city in the world in 2015 (based on GDP per capita)
P1nwL TIL 28 US states have average radon levels at or above the recommended action level for radon exposure of 4 pCi/L.