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TIL McDonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world
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TIL that, starting during their golden age in the early 17th century, the Dutch had a monopoly on trade with Japan that lasted until 1854. During this time, the Dutch were Japan’s only source of information on the Western world.
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TIL: Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, uses 25% of the global hazelnut supply
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TIL Owlsley Stanley, the rather famed clandestine chemist who manufactured large quantities of LSD in the 60's, provided LSD to the Beatles during the filming of "Magical Mystery Tour"
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TIL that Michael Boddenberg, the minister of finance of the German state of Hesse, once directed a school for butchers and bakers.
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TIL: There is a mental delusion called The Truman Show delusion where those affected believe their lives are actually reality shows. A patient went to New York to check whether the World Trade Center had fallen believing the 9/11 attacks to be an elaborate plot twist in his personal storyline.