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TIL that the reason chips bags are half empty is because it is package with nitrogen gas to protect it from damage during transit

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LKWZ TIL during the war of 1812 the patent office clerk threw himself in front of soldiers and successfully convinced them to spare the office, for knowledge benefits the entire world.
0wBry TIL HSBC (The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp) was founded to handle the British side of the Chinese opium trade.
Oo6Y6 TIL of the 'en viager occupe' system in France, in which the buyer pays a homeowner a fixed monthly sum until the homeowner passes away, then the buyer gets ownership of the house.
jKGa TIL Don King has killed two men. He shot one in the back who had robbed his illegal gambling house and later stomped an employee to death over $600. He was convicted of murder and later pardoned after Jessie Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and several others wrote letters to Ohio’s governor.
xovb TIL the term ‘love’ in tennis originated from the French word l'oeuf, meaning egg. The zero looks like an egg, l'oeuf, which sounds very much like 'love’.