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TIL that Ketchup used to be made without tomatoes.

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9YYJM TIL that telling other people about your goals gives the illusion you're closer to achieving them, making you less likely to complete them
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xwK1 TIL how Oskar Schindler - in addition to saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during WW2 by hiring them to work in his factory - purposely recalibrated the machines to produce bogus artillery shells for the German war effort.
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