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TIL the inventor of chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestle in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.

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Olda TIL Central Park’s rivers and streams are entirely artificial and can be turned on and off.
yV5eV Til about the Gladbeck Hostage Crisis, when a bus was highjacked in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, West Germany, and the German media reporters apparently helped the kidnappers during the crime to get a good story
xx15 TIL A WW2 era chemist dissolved gold nobel prize medals in aqua reggia to hide them from nazis. after the war he recovered the gold from the solution and the medals were recast for the winners
Oo9b1 TIL that the american bison's binomial/scientific name is Bison Bison
5YAZB TIL in 1957 a man crashed his military plane in the Sierra Nevadas and was lost. He emerged 54 days later and had a tale of survival, but with no wreckage found, people thought he sold the plane to the Russians. His wife left him, he was cast out. Years after he died, the wreckage was finally found.