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TIL Henry Ford was an anti Semite who wrote International Jew, and caused some Germans to become anti Semitic after reading this book.

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6EJKW TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.
rRL10 TIL the American pencil manufacturer Dixon Ticonderoga was founded in 1795, making it 225 years old and one of the oldest actives companies in the U.S.
8eJvX TIL At age 19, future President Lyndon Johnson secured a job teaching elementary school to impoverished Mexican-American students in 1928. Within three months, Lyndon developed various programs including contests in spelling and public speaking, coaching sports
0ddm1 TIL That if you shuffle a deck of cards properly, that you've made history by creating a unique sequence. Its called 52! (Factorial)
MDO7 TIL: if you take the cost of the raw materials in a human body; A human costs about $1985.77