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TIL that Hitler, FDR and Mussolini died within 18 days of each other.

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loEmK TIL petit Four (small french pastries) got their name from how they are baked. Traditional brick ovens took a long time to cool down, so to not waste residual heat after baking bread, bakers made smaller cakes at this lower temperature. It was called baking à petit four - literally "at small oven."
AN7jl TIL that McDonald's first Executive Chef Rene Arend invented both the McNuggets & the McRib
woDMo TIL that the Basilica, a cannon used to besiege Constantinople, was so powerful that its recoil killed its own operators
neMVb TIL the name Yosemite was given by the white men who thought it was the name of the natives they were trying to drive out of the area. It was later learned that the natives actually called themselves the Ahwahneechees and the word “Yosemite” meant “They are killers.”
Ovga TIL that Ocean Spray, which does nearly $2 billion in sales, is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 cranberry farmers.