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TIL about black supremacy

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AKea TIL Hitler had extreme fascination with the Disney film “Snow White” and kept a copy of it in his private library.
16Gkr TIL: Children from divorced families dies five years earlier on average
6peQ TIL that during WWII, Coca-Cola lobbyist Ben Oehlert convinced the government to allow their product to be given to the troops as an alternative to alcohol in order to be excused from sugar rationing, thus potentially saving the company from going under.
X00d8 TIL French secret service agents bombed the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior in order to stop Greenpeace from disrupting underwater nuclear testing in 1985.
e0JNb TIL the Levi Straus was not the inventor of Denim jeans but partnered with Jacob Davis after Davis approached him to fund the patent. Jacob Davis devised the riveting of the pants independent of Straus and also came up with the double orange threaded stitch design.