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TIL Oreos are ‘accidentally vegan’

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9wb8p TIL salt used to be used as currency, the word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt
gMevb TIL the board game Stratego was invented by a Dutch Jew for his two children during WW2. The family was eventually sent to a concentration camp but luckily survived.
LQXYm TIL air conditioning enabled mass American migrations to the south and help created summer blockbusters
1aYkX TIL that in the 60s, the Dutch were so frustrated with the government's monopoly on TV that they built an artificial island in the North Sea to transmit uncensored television. Eventually, the Netherlands legally expanded its maritime claim and the military raided the island by air.
l7XR7 TIL that octopuses have three hearts and blue blood