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TIL that scientists have discovered a new deep-sea predatory crustacean species, Dulcibella camanchaca, thriving at depths of nearly 8,000 meters in the Atacama Trench.

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wLYl1 TIL that the U.S briefly banned sliced bread in 1943. During this time, a letter appeared in The New York Times from a distraught housewife saying, in part: "I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to the morale and saneness of a household."
vExD TIL Americans mostly eat white chicken meat and export the rest to Russia/Asia where dark meat is preferred, so most chickens get split in two and sent around the world.
69XJX TIL there are sand dunes on Kurnell Peninsula close to Sydney. They have been used as filming locations in several movies, including 40000 Horsemen and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
v1nx TIL the word ‘escalate’ did not exist until the invention of the escalator.
JYX6Q TIL the birth control pill used to be known as the "red pill"