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TIL the "Pac-Man defense" is when a company being bought out in a hostile takeover counterattacks by trying to buy out the aggressor.

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GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”
JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
vPdnL TIL hemp can grow up to 2 inches per day
KQBw TIL in the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ that writer/director Harold Ramis original script had Andy McDowell’s character living the time loop with Murray, that Murray kept track of time by reading a single page a day in the library until finished, and the time loop lasts 10,000 years
PYEpg TIL that the Eiffel Tower still exists today because Choltitz, a German infantry general, refused direct orders from Hitler to destroy it