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TIL NASA is developing 3D printed pizzas for astronauts

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nEwo TIL a majority (52.8%) of Mexican-Americans self identify as white.
J1dOV TIL that on Monday, August 24, 2015 world stock markets were down substantially, wiping out all gains made in 2015. With this plunge, an estimated $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion) had been wiped off the books on global markets since June 3.
b7Q7 TIL Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a short story in only six words. It was so good, it was said to made people cry: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
1anDP TIL Lentils have been a source of sustenance for humans since prehistoric times. They are the oldest pulse crop known to man and one of the earliest domesticated crops. Depending on location, lentils were either considered a poor man's food or a delicacy for the upper class
9w5RB TIL that Disney's use of a fox for Robin Hood is partly based on medieval stories about an anthromorphic fox called "Reynard the Fox"