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TIL that Tootsie Roll is a publicly traded company with a $2 billion market cap. It's run by an 88 year old lady.

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ajKo TIL that during the U.S. Civil War, former President John Tyler became a Confederate and was elected to serve in the Condeferate congress. He is the only U.S. President to not be mourned officially in Washington D.C. due to his being a Confederate supporter.
b9ZEj TIL that almost half the cars in the year 1900 were electric.
8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
16ADd TIL a Billy Joel biopic called "Piano Man" has been greenlit, but no rights for Joel's music, name/likeness, or life story were granted
xVmX5 TIL that Mao Zedong was responsible for more deaths than Hitler or Stalin.Political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014), a non-China specialist who made wildly higher estimates than any other historian—that Mao was responsible for 77 million deaths.