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TIL that Paul Revere’s son turned his father’s silversmith business into a copper manufacturing company and it has been in business since 1801

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p8aPQ TIL 1972 Soviet Union's eavesdropping led to “The Great Grain Robbery” of communications on calls between American wheat farmers and the Department of Agriculture that enabled the Russians to covertly buy record amounts of wheat at low prices, causing a U.S. grain shortage 18 months later.
rR6w4 TIL Southern California Edison is only now starting to replace bare power lines with insulated power lines in high wildfire risk areas.
YpmBA TIL that there are more fried chicken restaurants just in South Korea (50,000 as of 2018) than there are McDonald's worldwide (37,855 as of 2018).
ae1A TIL Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Bass” plagiarized its melody from a Korean song that came out 8 years earlier.
8aoo4 TIL that during the Prussian siege of Paris, supplies and food were so dire that after slaughtering all the farm animals and pets, eventually the animals in the zoo were killed. There's even a copy of a restaurant menu from the time that included dishes like elephant consommé and roast camel.