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TIL that Ryan Cohen pivoted a moment before launching his jewelry business into Chewy because he had an "epiphany" 6 years later he sold it for 3.35 billion dollars

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OGB11 TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history - the Panama Canal.
p8lap TIL that incarcerated males put themselves at risk for injury and infection when attempting penile enhancement with improvised equipment
XEx4k TIL Mark Hamill went to Comic-Con dressed as a stormtrooper and took photos with a bunch of unknowing fans
KN59 TIL in the 1980s, India released 25,000 flesh-eating turtles into the Ganges river in an attempt to clean up corpse-pollution. The turtles were raised on dead fish so they wouldn’t develop a taste for the living, as they ate mostly everything. The $32M plan failed due to corruption and mismanagement
P1aVZ TIL about the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. “In the first four months of 1942, German U-boats ravaged the shipping lanes off North Carolina, sinking almost 40 ships during that period. It is an often overlooked piece of American history.”