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TIL Napoleon offered a prize to anyone who could feed his troops effectively, and thus canned foods were born

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ZpZYp TIL the Australian language Ngan'gi (Ngan’gityemerri) has more than fifteen genders, including masculine human, feminine human, vegetables, drinks, canines, non-canine animals and two different genders for spears
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e4VD TIL the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri has more shoreline than the coast of California
dDZdj TIL that Buridan's ass is a philosophical paradox about a donkey that is equally hungry and thirsty, standing midway between a bale of hay and a bucket of water. The donkey is unable to make any rational decision between the two, and thus, it dies of both hunger and thirst.