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TIL In 1490 a meteor shower in China killed 20,000 people.

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0wBBj TIL: America's most iconic snack company - responsible for the Oreo, Vanilla Wafer, Fig Newton, and others - is the result of a merger in 1898 of the major biscuit producers of the time to form the "National Biscuit Company", or better known as "NaBisCo".
MekL8 TIL of Jessica O. Matthews, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur. At the age of 19 she invented the Soccket, which is a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy and can provide three hours of light after half an hour of play.
oRjdE TIL that in 1983, West Indies opener Gordon Greenidge became the only cricketer marked “retired not out” in a Test. He had to leave the match to rush home as his 2-year-old daughter was dying. She tragically passed away two days later.
eelL TIL that Gordon Ramsay was so impressed with In N Out, after he finished his meal he went through the drive thru to take some home
e0WjL TIL compulsive hoarding is actually more common in men than women