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TIL about the Little Joe, a hand-held pistol crossbow used by the OSS from 1942 to 1945

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md6y TIL that jams are made from fruit, while jellies are made from juice. Preserves have chunks of fruit, conserves have dried fruit or nuts, and marmalades have peel and pulp. Fruit butters are slow cooked to a smooth consistency.
l7LvN TIL tiramisu, the Italian dessert of coffe-soaked ladyfingers, sweetened marscapone, and cocoa powder is only around fifty years old, having been invented somtime in the late 1960s or early 1970s.
wNVM TIL: In the popular card game “Cards against humanity” if you get the bigger blacker box edition, there is a hidden card in the lid of the box.
E9RX TIL that in 1914 Henry Ford more than doubled his workers wages to $5 a day, business leaders called him a socialist but Ford’s profits jumped 200% and Ford factories were 5 times more productive than other automotive companies.
p8NbO TIL there is a podcast episode of Futurama from 2017 with the original cast and writers