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TIL that Piper aircraft is a state-owned firm owned by Brunei government

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X0L9X TIL from the 1850s to 1914, the city of Dachau, Germany had an artist colony, attracting artists from across Europe, such as landscape painters and printmakers
aBrA TIL, there is plan to extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years.
5Yrrn TIL scientists say that parents shouldn’t discourage their kids from eating boogers based on findings that snot consumption is good for overall health: snot contains a rich reservoir of good bacteria, and eating it can strengthen the body’s immune system & prevent bacteria from sticking to teeth
MeLxa TIL that Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company"), the American oil subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation, illegally supplied oil on credit to Franco's forces during the Spanish Civil War and also shipped oil to Germany to support the Nazis during World War II.
AJrg TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of 4 days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.