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TIL KitchenAid has moved manufacturing of hand mixers from China back to the USA

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1GBV TIL Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under Stockholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. ex: Wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.
KYQbE TIL The lead singer of The Human League, Paul Oakey, hated the song "Don't You Want Me" so much that he demanded the record company include a large colour poster with the 7" single because he felt fans would "feel ripped off" by the 'substandard' single alone. It would become their biggest hit.
yQ60J TIL during the 1860's, the Russian empire killed and expelled as much as 80-97% of their entire Circassian population, these events (now known as "The Circassian genocide") are still denied by Russia, and Georgia is the only country to recognize it WORLDWIDE.
LQdYP TIL a Costa Rican fisherman once nursed a crocodile back to health after it was shot in the head. The reptile, named 'Pocho', was released back into the wild but followed the man home and slept on his porch. For the next 20 years, Pocho became a part of the man's family.
yVmal TIL that Achille Murat a nephew of Napoleon Bonapart and for a time heir to the Kingdom of Naples, immigrated to the US where he settled in Florida. There he met and married the great grand-niece of George Washington, Catherine Willis Gray a socialite and preservationist