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TIL of Springerle, a detailed south German biscuit that used Ammonium carbonate as a leavening agent.

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loWmG TIL Daily Mail editor Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler and wrote articles such as "Hurrah for the Blackshirts". The Spectator condemned Rothermere's article commenting that, "The Blackshirts, like the Daily Mail, appeal to people unaccustomed to thinking.”
VMawB TIL that a French bacteriologist trying to use a virus to kill rabbits on his property accidentally wiped out over 90% of the rabbits in Western Europe. He was prosecuted and fined, but the French government later gave him a medal depicting a dead rabbit.
b9O7E TIL that a 'bad' Bean Boozle flavor is made by super-heating the actual disgusting item, putting it through a "gas chromotograph," isolating the chemical makeup, and converting it into "flavor markers" for the jelly bean.
eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”
OoQNY TIL that The Lion King, heavily marketed by Disney as their "first Disney original" was straight up plagiarized from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion (1960)