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TIL: Mr. Peanut was created by grade schooler Antonio Gentile for a 1916 contest to design the company's brand icon.

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7Gor TIL Cruise ships are legally allowed to discharge (and they do) - raw, untreated sewage once they are three miles from shore. A typical cruise ship can produce up to 30,000 gallons of sewage a day.
a80db TIL that unlike knitwears, crochet products can't be mass produced. There are little to no machines that can do it. That means every crochet product you see on the market are handmade..by companies who exploit workers for cheap labor.
v1ndj TIL When a snake in the Tokyo Zoo was given a live hamster (as a meal), they two became “best friends.”
awDwN TIL branches from a 3000 year old, still living, Greek olive tree were used to weave victors' wreaths for the winners of the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics
75ax TIL 92 of the 100 oldest People currently alive are Female