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TIL Two pharmacists were responsible for the creation of Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce in 1835. While unpalatable at first, the pair let it ferment for 3 years before discovering it’s value as a flavoring sauce.

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aw9EA TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.
K8dJ TIL that many baby animals are unwittingly “kidnapped” by people who assume they’re abandoned.
GVv1 TIL The reason why Mexican Music sounds so much like Polka, is due the direct influence of German and Czechoslovakian immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s.
R7vX9 TIL In March 2006 a man purchased an authentic official copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of 200 “official copies” commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820, for $2.48 at a Nashville, TN thrift shop. It later sold for $477,650 at auction.
gG6b TIL Stanford & Harvard grads have built more $1Bn businesses than grads of the 10 next-best universities combined.