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TIL: Denver International Airport, the largest in the US, is one and a half times the size of Manhattan

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WkKkN TIL the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups worked for Hershey before starting his own company. Some sources claim H.B. Reese was laid off, others claim he quit.
77eL TIL Charles Darwin married his first cousin, Emma. They had 10 children; 3 died at a young age. Whenever they fell ill, Charles feared that they might have inherited weaknesses from inbreeding.
78eEL TIL Doc Martens are named after nazi doctor, Klaus Martens.
R5lV8 TIL that Richard Harvey, the recorder player on the soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, did not know the track "A Window to the Past" would begin with a recorder solo until the orchestra started playing the piece in the recording studio.
ADkL7 TIL of the Small Penis Rule, which is when authors create a character based off a real person but give the character a small penis, so that the real person is less likely to accuse them of libel, since then they'd have to say they have a small penis too.