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TIL Henry Heinz deliberately put his ketchup in clear glass bottles which was uncommon due to a lack of food safety standards. unethical companies used colored bottles to hide shoddy product and he worked with a chemist who went on to find foods containing gypsum, brick dust, borax, formaldehyde etc

GAwmQ TIL of the original production of 20,351, approximately 238 Supermarine Spitfires exist today worldwide, with 111 located in the UK. About 54 are considered airworthy, including 30 in the UK.
awaMA TIL the horror film Poltergeist (1982) was rated PG, due to the original vote for an R rating being overturned and because there was no PG13 rating at the time.
yQbBw TIL Porsche tried to replace its flagship car, the 911, with the bigger, more luxurious 928, but people kept buying the iconic 911. The 911 still hadn’t had a major redesign since its birth in 1963, and only received one in 1998, three years after the 928 went out of production.
4kxvo TIL George Washington was called "American Fabius" for using the same strategy as Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator (the delayer) in the 2nd Punic War against Hannibal. Avoid big pitched battles and weaken the enemy through attrition
XExWX TIL Until the 18th century, India was the only source of diamonds in the world for nearly 2325 years. When the Indian diamond mines were depleted, the quest for alternate sources began and this led to discovery of diamonds in Brazil in 1725,