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TIL: that the oil company Shell was started by a man called Samuel Samuel

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VdR8 TIL There is a movement occurring in a small town in Canada called ‘Save Us Bacon’ that is pushing to have Kevin Bacon come and reenact the plot of Footloose in order to end various laws against gathering in public and listening to music in public, among others.
awAry TIL that Jewish communities had lower death rates during the 14th c. Black Death due to their hygienic practices. This in part inspired a wave of antisemitic violence in Christian Europe, where some communities attributed the pandemic to a Jewish conspiracy.
VWlm TIL there is a species of orchid which produces a narcotic nectar to cause a drug addiction in their wasp pollinators.
XljR TIL of Lauri Törni, a Finnish soldier that after fighting in the winter war against the USSR, he joined the SS and kept fighting until the end WW2. After WW2, he migrated to the US and joined the US Army, and died in combat in Vietnam in 1965 by which time he had earned high ranking U.S. awards.
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