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TIL that Ferrero, the maker of Nutella, is one of the most secretive company in the world; it designs its machines in-house and does not allow press tours

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0drkA TIL there was an entire recent brutal 2 year war in Tigray Region of Ethiopia with more than half a million people killed.
8aarb TIL In a comedy sketch satarising 1960s attitudes to homosexuality Monty Python predicted Furry Fandom decades before it became a thing.
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them
PZ9Z TIL 1 in every 20,000 girls are born with their rectum, vagina, and urinary tract fused together into a a single common channel, called a persistent cloaca.
GAROG TIL that Thanksgiving is the most popular single day for Chinese immigrants in NYC to get married, as it is generally the only day on which entire families will not be at work. Restaurants have to be booked a year in advance, with as many as 10 receptions hosted in a single day.