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TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists, it is currently a pest control company.

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9RkB TIL asking someone their Chinese zodiac is considered a polite way to learn their age
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VMAZm TIL the casting director for "Parks and Recreation" called Michael Schur and said, "I just met the weirdest girl I’ve ever met in my life." He met with her and she made him feel very uncomfortable for about an hour. Aubrey Plaza was cast as April.
AvR7 TIL that there exists a correlation between pulling an all nighter and snapping out of depression
jN6gX TIL Stanley Kubrick appointed French Director Bertrand Tavernier as his publicist in France and he was asking him regularly about strange stuff like types of lamps in theaters, Tavernier resigned after 3 months and told him: As a film-maker you are a genius but as an employer you are an imbecile.