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TIL that the Shell Corporation started out in 1833 as an import-export business specialising in oriental seashells. They started shipping oil over 50 years later but the name stuck.

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pYW7N TIL of Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF), a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "an iimportant read to new generations of lesbians."
OoOPg TIL I learned that Sweden have the most islands in the world.
Alpl TIL there is a beverage in developement that will contain every known essential nutrient for the body, eliminating the need to eat.
XGk TIL Jack Whites real name is John Gillis and took Meg White’s (drummer of White Stripes) last name when they got married. A year later they formed The White Stripes.
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.