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TIL that slave labor was used to build the White House

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p8dKO TIL that Jeremy Renner had an app and communication platform developed that was dedicated to discussing Jeremy Renner in which users purchased in-app currency using actual real money and competed for the opportunity to be acknowledged by Jeremy Renner
JGV1 Til that the east and west US use different sized sticks of butter
X0EB8 TIL about Dark Empaths, people who display high empathy alongside high Dark Triad personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy)
dDvb9 TIL Joseph Bazalgette, the man who designed London's sewers in the 1860's, said 'Well, we're only going to do this once and there's always the unforeseen' and doubled the pipe diameter. If he had not done this, it would have overflowed in the 1960's (its still in use today).
4Xd5R TIL when France was occupied by the Germans in 1940, Citroen was forced to produce vehicles for the Nazis. They chose to move the fill line on their oil dipsticks lower, causing the trucks to seize under stress from low oil.