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TIL in 1898 Andrew Carnegie was so opposed to the American annexation of the Philippines he offered to personally refund the $20million the US spent purchasing it from Spain in exchange if it meant the islands would be granted independence.

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BdEx TIL cake mix used to contain powdered egg, and only needed water; Betty Crocker made the decision to take it out and sales skyrocketed. Due to housewives feeling that the simple step of adding a real egg somehow made the cake more homemade/authentic, and gave them a sense of contribution.
v1VgK TIL eating the liver of a polar animal (especially polar bears) will kill you due to a vitamine A overdose.
5VXGp TIL that Osama bin Laden (elephant) killed at least 27 people.
wJwo TIL that the colony of Georgia was founded with four prohibitions: no Catholics, no liquor, no lawyers, no slaves.
mV1R TIL that Sweden’s recycling program is so successful that they are asking Norway for their trash to power their own Waste-to-Power plants because they don’t have enough non-recycled waste.