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TIL A German drug cartel started a price war with Dow Chemical by selling bromine below their cost to produce. Herbert Dow successfully defeated the cartel by buying all their product and reselling it at a profit.

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e0lMg TIL in 1940 75% of Americans dreamt almost always in black and white, and today over 12% of people still dream in only black and white.
JYQJ4 TIL that the inventor of the Teddy Bear was Margaret Steiff, a German woman who also had three paralyzed limbs due to polio.
69l0Y TIL a Thai woman died slipping on mud and grabbing a live wire—and her sister was electrocuted the same way showing how it happened at her funeral.
vPZMD TIL carrots were originally cultivated for their leaves and seeds
X4dj TIL in 1999 Martin Luther King Jr’s family won a wrongful death lawsuit, the jury found that the US Government had some doing in his assassination. The family only asked for $100 in restitution to prove the suit was not for financial gain.