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TIL that the active ingredient of Febreze is derived from corn.

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ZpMNB TIL that the 4th largest polished diamond in the world is in the King’s Crown and a previous crown was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell
X0gaQ Today I learned Courtney Love used front Faith No More in 1984
nBMo TIL that in Eve Online a player set up an in-game bank that operated legitimately for several months. The bank’s founder then stole nearly 790 billion units of in-game currency, nearly $170,000 in real world dollars. This was all perfectly legal.
5Z08 TIL the largest purchase ever made on an Amex Black Card was for US$170 million and was made by Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian, earning him and his family free first class travel for the rest of their lives.
7ld7 TIL the reason Old World disease killed so many natives in the New World upon colonization was because of the disease’s roots in domesticated animals; while Europeans had centuries of exposure to countless livestock pathogens, natives kept virtually no livestock, so were defenseless against them.