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TIL that in 1928 sliced bread was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". This led to the popular phrase "greatest thing since sliced bread".

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VkPm TIL Mila Kunis was so addicted to World of Warcraft that she forced herself to quit playing because she spent too much time on it
Oa6Y TIL 3 pacifists (all over age of 57) breached the defenses of a site that houses 100 tons of nuclear material, to paint antiwar slogans on buildings. The lapse in security at what is “supposed to be one of the world’s most secure facilities” was described by Steven Chu as “deeply troubling.”
kJvoB TIL Bono from U2 was named after a hearing aid shop in Dublin
Z8ge4 TIL that in 1968, the US army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep on ranch land north of its biological and chemical weapons testing facility known as the Dugway Proving Ground. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill - as it came to be known, was caused by the open air testing of a highly toxic nerve agent "VX".
Brn9y TIL: During the first world war, so many starving wolves had assembled that the opposing Russian and German forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!