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TIL only 8 teams have won the NBA championship in the last 30 years

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ANKVg TIL one of the first legal documents outlining the existence of limited liability companies was drafted in 1455: A venetian sued the Medici branch of Bruges for a defective shipment. The defendant succesfully argued that the only liable party was the London branch, which sold him the shipment
Wr69 TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.
XEkaE TIL of Lucy, a chimpanzee who was raised to believe she was human. She learned to sign over 250 words and some of her hobbies included drinking gin, browsing Playgirl magazines, and masturbating using a vacuum cleaner.
rRJXy TIL about the General Archive of the Indies, a building in Seville, Spain that contains millions of documents regarding the colonization and administration of the Americas, with original scriptures from people like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and various Conquistadors
agao TIL it takes two weeks to manufacture an Atomic Fireball- and it is composed at least one hundred of layers of candy