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TIL Zildjian (cymbal company) is almost 400 years old
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TIL During World War 2 all venomous animals at the London Zoo were killed at the beginning of the war in case the zoo was bombed and the animals escaped
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TIL that, if you discount the Bible, there was no record of Jewish enslavement in Egypt
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TIL: In 2009 a Kansas City car dealership offered a voucher for a free AK-47 with every truck purchase.
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TIL in a rare move for a large corporation, SC Johnson voluntarily stopped using Polyvinylidene chloride in saran wrap which made it cling but was harmful to the planet. They lost a huge market share.
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TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.