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TIL that the ingredient’s list on food items is actually ordered by weight

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MB1b TIL that John Lasseter tried to pitch the idea of a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired, after that he went on and co-founded Pixar.
9r8G TIL Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
OyL7 TIL that in Ancient Rome a toga was the equivalent to a suit today, mainly used for doing business, religious rites or going to court.
M7VlW TIL Lady Anne Blunt, a co-founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England, was daughter of Lady Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, who was daughter of Lord Byron, English romantic poet.
jN8PN TIL The oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in adjectival form in English comes from the margins of a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero's De Officiis. A monk had scrawled in the margin notes, "fuckin Abbot".