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TIL that Henry Ford founded Kingsford charcoal as a way to process the waste from the wood that was needed for his cars and that Thomas Edison designed Kingsford's first briquette factory.

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9wBl6 TIL Beyoncé is the only female artist to debut all of her 8 studio albums at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200. She is also the most awarded and nominated artist of all time in the history of the Grammy Awards with 34 wins and 99 nominations. She is also the first woman to headline an all-stadium tour.
VMkZp TIL in 2009 a Japanese whaling fleet used a sonic weapon against a helicopter caring a camera crew of conservation activists. The conservationists noted that their helicopter was also equipped with a similar sonic weapon, but had only used it thus far to play a recording of "Ride of the Valkyries".
v1p5j TIL: Female wasps will attack almost any other insect to implant their eggs, which hatch into parasitic larva that eventually kill their host. This actually makes them useful as a 'green' method of pest control, being intentionally introduced to decimate the populations of crop-killing pests.
8aleZ TiL Alan Alda has been married for 60 years and has three daughters. He met his wife at a mutual friend's dinner party; they bonded when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor and they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.
EeGp TIL: When launched in the 1950’s Betty Crocker’s cake mix sales were dismal when first launched, until psychologist Ernest Dichter suggested they remove ‘the barrier of guilt’ of the ease of the recipes, by adding a sense of participation. This was remedied by the instructions to 'add an egg’.