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TIL Soap Was Once Made of Animal Fat and Wood Ashes

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4Xxa TIL when 3 people tried to sell Coca Cola secrets to Pepsi, Pepsi informed Coke and the FBI.
nYV9 TIL that a father was denied access to see his premature twins when Beyonce and Jay-Z had their daughter at the same time.
lowjV TIL of V Gordon Childe. Considered the most academically influential archaeologist of the 20th Century, Childe feared growing old so much that he threw himself off a cliff at the age of 65.
kQ71 TIL BBC News was broadcast to Nazi occupied Europe, with live Big Ben tolls. German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on the bell tone, thus offering invaluable help to the Luftwaffe.
VMMjp TIL Apple bought $270 billion dollars worth of "intangible assets" from Ireland --- more than the entire value of all the residential property in Ireland.