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TIL Germans have a tool which breaks eggs perfectly called a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.

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N7My6 TIL that when famed jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45-carat Hope Diamond, valued at $200 to $250 million USD, to the Smithsonian in Washington, he sent it via the Postal Service.
grn57 TIL that the state of Michigan rejected more than 21,000 custom license plates over the past decade for being “offensive” - and you can read them all because providing everything in the system was the only way to fulfill a FOIA request for 1 year of rejections since the system “can’t sort by date”
rZxM TIL that after the Columbine High School massacre, Marilyn Manson trademarked his stage name so he could issue cease and desist orders to silence media who were wrongly blaming him for inspiring the killers
PYX6L TIL in 2002, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Association of American Medical Colleges for colluding to overwork and underpay residents (trainee doctors). The suit was dismissed in 2004 when Congress snuck a clause into a Pension bill exempting the AAMC match program from antitrust laws.
rRgad TIL humans are evolving faster than at any point in the past 250 years. Increasingly babies have shorter faces, smaller jaws, an extra artery in the arm, and extra bones in their legs and feet.