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TIL The Boston Tea Party destroyed an equivalent of $1.7million of tea in today's money.

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Zpw6Q TIL the Portuguese Man o’ War is a colonial organism, where many organisms form one unit. They produce both sexually and asexually. First, the male and female polyps release gametes into the water which, when fertilized, result in larvae that then begin to reproduce asexually to create a new colony.
grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.
7ZRZ TIL that b/c of universe’s increasing expansion rate, the gulf between all other stars and the Earth will eventually be so vast that stellar light, even at its greatest speed, will not be able to reach us, leaving our night sky in pure empty blackness.
7A57 TIL that the American Family Association demanded that Home Depot “stop supporting the gay agenda”. Unlike Lowe’s who bowed to AFA pressure a few months earlier, Home Depot refused and suffered an AFA boycott. During the next quarter, Home Depot’s profits increased by 6.1%.
mkNy TIL that there is a British man named Sir Nicholas Winston who organized the rescue of 669 Jews from Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. He is still alive today at 105 years old and was dubbed the “British Schindler.”