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TIL Flamin Hot Cheetos was invented by hotshot snack food professionals to compete with spicy snacks sold in the Midwest

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R8ma TIL there is a company specialising in making hidden doorways \ rooms for your home. One requires a chess board played in a certain combo to unlock.
dDkor TIL Australia's modern logistics industry was formed from the stuff the US military left behind after WW2.
KOLBE TIL the oldest ceramic ever found is from China and it's 20000 years old. Pottery appeared during the last ice age, long before Stone Age humans took up farming and animal husbandry
5YAgP TIL that the longest successful glide by a passenger jet was Air Transat Flight 236 from Toronto to Lisbon in August, 2001. The aircraft glided 120 kilometers (75 miles) at 33,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean after a fuel leak caused both engines to flame out. All passengers and crew survived.
OJM6 TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb