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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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rNMBd TIL in 2014 a Dutch woman was ID'd as one of the babies born in prison and kidnapped during Argentina’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983
dDjv8 TIL scientists discovered a 500-year-old map that accurately depicted Antarctica before it was officially discovered. It also shows the coastline of Antarctica without ice, something that shouldn’t have been possible, since the continent wasn’t officially discovered until 1820
LkVAQ TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
VMWgm TIL of Betteridge's law of headlines - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".
M49B TIL: Some airlines will not let an adult male passenger sit next to an unaccompanied child. British Airways was sued because of this practice and lost, admitting to sex discrimination. They have since ended the policy but other airlines still defend it.