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TIL French’s American Mustard is British Owned

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neo8P TIL About the Churchill Club, a group of highschoolers who started a Danish resistance against the Nazis because their government and army didn't put up a very good fight
4Rjb TIL that the White House increased the numbers of signatures necessary for a petition to get a response after a petition for an American Death Star got enough signatures
R1P8 TIL that Werner Heisenberg worked to develop an Atomic Bomb for Nazi Germany.Claiming that he deliberately attempted to misguide German efforts, transcripts of secret recordings after the war revealed however that it was actually ignorant of what was required to succeed.
NX7gJ TIL of Connections, a 1978 science education TV series created by science historian James Burke. The series contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation but rather that interconnected isolated events is what drives history and innovation.
X0mbX TIL - Esperanto is the most successful constructed international auxiliary language, and the only such language with a sizeable population of native speakers!