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TIL: Hidden Valley ranch dressing is manufactured by Clorox.

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XVgP TIL in 2009 the US mint offered free delivery on purchases of the new $1 coins, and many people exploited this to earn thousands of “free” airline miles buy using their credit cards to buy the coins, then using the coins to pay the credit card
poRO TIL newborns start at the age of 1 in China and other east-asian cultures. And at the beginning of Lichen(event during February) one year is added to the person’s age. So people may be one or two years older in the ‘Asian reckoning’ traditional system than in the Western system.
8axAL TIL Teachers at a Florida elementary placed books inside the school vending machine. Students can buy books using tokens earned from doing good deeds or working hard in class
m1Vrp TIL that Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat, controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research and was the richest man in modern Italian history.
kOOG1 TIL: A human head transplant is planned to happen in China in the next few months. The main method is freezing the head before re-attaching it to an entirely new body.