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TIL Indigenous Australians were the first people to bake bread. Around 15,000 years earlier than Egyptians

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P1k4L TIL the word Orangutan is derived from the Malay words orang (person) and hutan (forest). It's entirely co-incidental that they have orange fur.
nWgEB TIL that the Vanderbilts held a costume ball as a housewarming party in 1883, during the Gilded Age. Most contemporary sources put the cost of the ball at $250,000 (nearly 6 million dollars in today’s money), including such costs as $65,000 for champagne and $11,000 for flowers.
ykW8 TIL: Johnny Depp never travels without his Captain Jack Sparrow costume as he often surprises kids in the hospital by showing up as Captain Jack Sparrow. Said visits usually turn into two to three hour improv sessions which Depp finds “really fun”
bJLZ TIL a chemistry grad student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinsonian Syndrome while trying to make opioids - accidentally advancing Parkinson’s research at his own expense
D1Wg TIL on August 20th, 1191, during the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionhearted’s Christian Army had the Muslim-held city of Acre surrounded. When the besieged could not meet the gold payment for terms of surrender, Richard’s army slaughtered 3000+ bound prisoners in full view of the opposing army.