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TIL President Gerald Ford once tried to eat a tamale without taking off the corn husk while campaigning

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K1JE TIL China stole the color white from chemical company DuPont. The firm’s closely guarded titanium oxide process is used for making cosmetics, plastics, and the chalked lines on tennis courts.
gGnb TIL the North and South Poles have no official time zones. In the North, countries which have research stations follow their respective countries’ times. The South Pole has only one research station (US-owned), and they use New Zealand time because researchers fly in from Christchurch.
xg0o TIL that tentacle porn was created because Japanese censorship laws prohibited the showing of human genitalia
eLWg TIL up to 95% of the historic structures in the city of Mecca have been demolished over the last three decades. Many of the sites were over 1000 years old and many were connected to the life and times of the prophet Muhammad and his companions.
5lJD TIL that humans almost instinctively know the pentatonic scale