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TIL Henry Ford helped industrialize charcoal briquette production with Ford Charcoal, which later became Kingsford

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PYWpE TIL about Hematohydrosis; a rare disease where humans sweat blood.
9Erp TIL Genghis Khan’s chief adviser was a captured scholar named Yelu Chucai. His contribution to the Mongol Empire was to suggest that the Mongols not kill everyone, but tax them instead.
dDRNB TIL There Is An Island In the Mediterranean Sea Which Has Risen and Fallen Beneath The Sea Over 4 Times - It Is Currently Submerged Under The Sea
VMMJQ TIL a museum turned an apollo space shuttle into a time capsul in 1976, and plans to re-open it in 2076
D7yJ TIL that it’s common during TV showings of “Groundhog Day” to repeat the same six commercials for each ad break (referencing the movie’s phenomenon)