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TIL Heinz was caught underfilling its ketchup bottles and was ordered to overfill its ketchup bottles for the next year.

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MeR6K TIL that, upon being appointed King of Holland by Napoleon, Louis Bonaparte arrived in Holland and exclaimed to a crowd, “I am the Rabbit of Holland” (Iek ben Konijn van Olland). He meant to say ‘lek ben Koning’ (I am the King). But the Dutch loved him anyways, and remember him as “Louis the Good.”
Qdj6 TIL that when Queen wanted to release “Bohemian Rhapsody”, various executives told them that a song with a length of 5 minutes and 55 seconds was too long and would never be a hit. They even played it to other musicians who claimed that the song had “no hope” of being played on the radio.
bKyZ TIL that the generation born between 1925 and 1945 is called the “silent generation” because “ many focused on their careers rather than on activism, and people in it were largely encouraged to conform with social norms.”
ZpJD4 TIL: in 1919, famous eugenicist Charles Davenport published a study claiming that being a sea captain (thalassophilia - "love of the sea") was a recessive sex-linked genetic trait because it appeared only in males and could skip generations. He dismissed all criticism as “uninformed.”
DOKP TIL: Hitler was well aware of what his reputation would be after the war. Albert Speer recalls: “We were alone, silently watching twilight darken into night…Hitler says: ‘If I fail, I shall be the most despised man in history.’”