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TIL in the 1950s General Motors sponsored three Looney Tunes episodes to promote capitalist ideas.

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76RM TIL that Buddhism was adopted in the Indo-Greek kingdom upto 200 years before it was spread to East Asia
bvBj TIL in 1908 a British pub owner was charged with allowing gambling on a game of chance - darts. He brought a darts player into the court who hit any number requested to prove that darts is a game of skill.
Lk9GQ TIL of the Emery Celtic Cross - in the early 2000s, a Forester in Ireland planted two different species of trees to create a 125 metre tall Celtic cross design within a forest. The design was first discovered in 2016 by an airplane passenger, 6 years after the Forester, Liam Emery, had died.
xrvb TIL Knocker Upper , before alarm clockswere affordable or reliable. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. They used a truncheon or short, heavy stick to knock on the clients’ doors or a long and light stick to reach windows on higher floors.
rN51w TIL Queen Victoria’s grandson Waldemar had hemophilia. The German royal was treated well by the Nazis and received multiple blood transfusions. In 1945 when Germany fell, all medical resources were diverted to holocaust survivors. The Americans refused Waldemar a transfusion and he died at age 56.