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TIL that Nutella uses 25% of the world’s supply of hazelnuts.

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MGeb TIL the Scotts company used to include clover in their lawn mix as a natural fertilizer. When their new herbicide killed the clover, they reclassified it as a weed.
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xXG7 TIL that in the 1700s, the Russian Empire had a black African major-general, governor and nobleman, who had come from Africa as a gift for Peter the Great, and who was also the great-grandfather of Russian author Pushkin.
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