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TIL that Canadian wheat flour from Manitoba is prized in Italy, and is preferred for Neapolitan Pizza.

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pYvrG TIL: There is a museum of toilet in New Delhi named Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets. It features rare collection of toilets from 2500BC up to today and gives a view of evolution of toilet related social custom, sanitary habits and technology and shows how deep rooted a simple toilet is.
7rQ07 TIL cockroach infestations can be so bad that the house needs to be burned to the ground surrounded by a ring of fire to prevent any of the little demons from escaping.
W1yd TIL that Rep. Tom Moore Jr. once submitted legislation to the Texas legislature in favor of honoring notorious murderer Albert DeSalvo “for his work in ‘population control’” as an April Fool’s Day joke. Without paying any attention to it, it was unanimously passed.
78nrp Today I learned that clay has memory. If warped or reshaped, it will return to previous shapes while being fired. I learned this the hard way.
9jWM TIL: The first use of the phrase “May the Fourth be with you” was by a Danish political party which placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister on May 4th 1979, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”