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TIL Ferrero uses a quarter of the worlds hazelnuts making Nutella.

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15KD TIL Almost 700 Hours of recorded interviews of former Black slaves are publicly online available at the Library of Congress. They sing songs and discuss their feelings on slavery, freedom, their families and slavemasters.
DpOg TIL the British study that linked vaccines to autism was retracted because this “elaborate fraud” has done long-lasting damage to public health
jLBX TIL that one of the assassins who attempted to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand threw a grenade but missed the Archduke’s car. He swallowed cyanide and jumped in the River Miljacka, the cyanide was old and did not work, and the river was only 10cm deep. He was captured seconds later.
WkN4Y TIL the oldest remains to ever be found in North America are those of a teenage girl in Mexico from 13,000 years ago.
QJgea TIL a Japanese exchange student wearing a white tuxedo was shot and killed by a property owner after showing up by mistake at a wrong house for a Halloween party. His last words were "We're here for the party!". The court ruled the killer not guilty.