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TIL that Nestle, one of the worlds largest confectionery companies, owns Jenny Craig.

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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)
VlyD TIL because of the land shortage around Tokyo there is a planned project to build a pyramid-shaped building 14 times higher than the pyramids at Giza that would house about 1,000,000 people off the coast of Tokyo. All in one building. It’s called the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid.
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
e0oXE TIL that a urinary tract infection can make you go insane.
EgmG7 TIL: At the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, Hawaii was not legally a part of the Union as one of the then-48 officially recognized states (along with Alaska). The territories of AK & HI did not join the United States until 1959, only 65 years ago.