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TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2

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woJVE TIL that 1/4 of the worlds hazelnuts are used by Ferrero, the company behind Nutella and related candies
d8YWj TIL During the American Revolution, a Virginian Officer named Charles Lynch became so famous for hanging Loyalist they called it Lynches Law. Thus, the act of hanging a Tory became known as lynching.
W7wJo TIL of Luciano Re Cecconi, an Italian football legend, who died in 1977 while pulling a prank on a friend's jewelry store posing as robbers. As the store had actually been robbed, the scared owner shot Cecconi dead. His last words were "It's just a joke! It's just a joke!"
WkeBY TIL about the longest standoff in American history. John Joe Gray and his family patrolled their property with guns for 15 years after he didn’t show up to court for assaulting a police officer.
a8mOy TIL that chiggers don't actually burrow under your skin, but instead drink your liquified skin through a straw they make out of dead skin cells.