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TIL That One Japanese Company (YKK) Makes Half Of The World’s Zippers

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0dmx1 TIL the UK engaged in reparations for slavery, but only for slave owning families. The British tax payers finally paid off the debt from this in 2015.
6YZl TIL that a group called the Guerrilla Grafters illegally graft fruit bearing branches onto ornamental public trees in San Francisco.
Zp89D TIL that the United States poisoned alcoholic beverages during Prohibition, killing an estimated 10,000 people overall.
LQpkv TIL On 911, US Speaker Hasert desperately tried to contact the Vice President to discuss emergency operations at the US Capitol until his phone line was interrupted. Thinking it was coming from the White House, he answered, only to discover a random citizen complaining about high taxes and pollution
Xenr TIL the first extermination camp was created by the Germans to kill Africans in 1904. Had nothing to do with Jews or Nazis.