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TIL of Obsidian. A volcanic glass so sharp, many surgeons prefer obsidian to surgical steel

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Z8R4D TIL As of 2018, 73% of active female senators and over 50% of women in the house of representatives were girl scouts alums
gMY1b TIL the first KFC restaurant was actually in Utah and was named that way because the sign painter thought "Kentucky Fried Chicken" sounded more exotic. Colonel Sanders did invent and his famous chicken in Kentucky though.
Y70Nd TIL the rotational axis of the Moon lies within Shackleton Crater.
QNWde TIL 69 is the only number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every decimal digit from 0–9 exactly once.
Me7lA TIL A Charlie Brown Christmas essentially killed the popularity of aluminum Christmas trees single-handedly. Within two years after its release, aluminum trees were no longer regularly manufactured.