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TIL that Ketchup used to be made without tomatoes.

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8ebnb Today I learned that there is a 1 Acre plot that belongs to the United States in Great Britain. It's a memorial for JFK, and Queen Elizabeth granted the plot to America
m1xvM TIL in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake, a large fire whirl engulfed the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo killing 38,000 people in 15 minutes.
a89JZ TIL about Grizzly 399. A female bear from the Grand Tetons that bucks the trend of living into her old age and giving birth to triplets instead of twins. She chooses to live in close proximity to humans for their protection and has become a social media celebrity and tourist attraction.
8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.
L8o9 TIL of the Iron Front, a democratic paramilitary group that opposed the Nazis in the early 1930s, and who’s flag was designed to cross out the Swastika if superimposed on a Nazi flag.