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TIL that Wrigley’s Gum was the first product to have a bar code

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j67BN TIL that the oldest customer service complaint was from 4,000 years ago. The world’s first customer complaint was found on a clay cuneiform tablet in Mesopotamia. It was written by a customer named Nanni who complained of bad copper ingots.
7aLM TIL There is a pickpocket who can steal your sunglasses off your face.
E1l0p TIL about the USS Mayflower - the only ship to serve in the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the Israeli Navy.
XeZk TIL Alexander the Great was embalmed in honey.
ep7Gn TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.