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TIL in 1677 the Dutch gave away Manhattan for a small Indonesian island

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9YD6Q TIL that both America and Australia have major store chains called Target, despite them being completely unrelated.
6xmJ TIL that Johnson & Johnson knew their baby powder product caused ovarian cancer in some consumers, but sold it anyway. A victim successfully sued for $70 million but J&J still maintained that their baby powder was “perfectly safe”.
OJ17 TIL that the ignition on all Porsches is located on the left side of the wheel. This is because back when Porsche was primarily a racing team, the drive could save a fraction of a second by starting the car with his left hand, while simultaneously switching the car into gear with his right hand.
Pk5L TIL that the producers of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (filmed in 1971 in Munich, Germany) had trouble finding dwarfs–any adult dwarfs at all– for the roles of the Oompa-Loompas. This was because the Nazis had killed so many of them 25 years earlier.
Me6LV TIL about Eugene Shoemaker. He was a geologist in the mid 1900's who wanted to go to the moon. He failed the medical exam to go to the moon, but he still helped train astronauts on Apollo 11,12, 13. After dying in a car crash his ashes made it to the moon. To this day they're still there.