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TIL During the chaos of the African campaign in WWII Axis General Rommel found himself visiting an Allied controlled field hospital. He inquired if supplies were needed and promised to help. Later he delivered the supplies he had promised.

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mxEMR TIL a long-lost Rembrandt painting was found in a basement in New Jersey. It was initially valued by a local auction house at $800, who were unaware of its true value. But numerous art buffs recognised its true value, resulting in it selling for $870,000 ($1.1 million with the sale premium).
wowa7 TIL most chewing gum is made out of plastic
kOyRB TIL that the most successful predator in Africa is the African wild dog. If a pack targets a prey, there’s an 85% chance they’ll bring it down successfully
J1LdV TIL that Little Caesars Pizza once said in a press release, "if you lined up all the Crazy Bread sold in a year it would circle the earth three times."
BrPEk TIL that there's a historical period officially referred to as the Pornocracy. 904 AD-906 AD was a super corrupt time for the Papacy and later scholars called it the Pornocracy, the Hetaerocracy, or the Rule of Harlots. (The Catholic Church refers to it as the saeculum obscurum, or dark century.)