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TIL that Wally Amos - founder of the cookie brand 'Famous Amos' - was once a talent agent who signed the band Simon & Garfunkel

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R7GRw TIL about "Moyenne Island" a small uninhabited island in Seychelles which one Brendon Grimshaw bought for £8,000 in 1962. With help from a partner, Rene Antoine Lafortune, Grimshaw transported and bred roughly 120 tortoises onto the island which is now the worlds smallest national park
Re4j TIL Turbotax, an American tax filling company, invested money in lobbying to keep tax return filling as confusing as possible, ensuring customers for their business.
Oovy6 TIL: The one hundred folds in a chef’s hat represent one hundred ways to cook an egg
0wP4M TIL Germany lost the First World War in major part because of underdeveloped agriculture and over reliance on import of food (the British Navy blocked it when the conflict began; learnt from the book "Cities" by John Reader)
VlO8 TIL Jeremy Clarkson’s mom invented the Paddington Bear stuffed toy