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All of the World's yeast probably originated in China.

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JY5wl TIL Pixar co-founder John Lasseter has ascribed importance to the film Yellow Submarine, claiming that it brought interest to animation as a serious art form.
x6eZk TIL as recently as 2011, Dr Pepper ran an ad campaign with the slogan “Dr Pepper: IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN”. There was even a Facebook page that only men could access, where men would shoot at “girlie” things like flowers and rainbows.
jN17a TIL that on March 6, 1967, Stalin’s daughter - 41-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva - defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and “embraced God, America and apple pie.”
YpvAZ TIL that the first battle of WWI consisted of a British ship firing a single shot at a German ship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in Africa, and taking the captain "prisoner." The two captains had been drinking buddies for years, and weren't about to let the war ruin it.
9ExG TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer