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TIL Playdough was originally invented to clean soot off of wallpaper back when we used to burn coal for heat.

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Oo1wL TIL that Iceland has the highest number of authors per head, and one in ten icelandic people will publish a book in their lifetime
j6kQR TIL that Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, is an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles who now represents his former co-star Ke Huy Quan, who played Data in The Goonies.
5Y678 TIL of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. She had her son at just 13 years old after marrying Edmund Tudor, who was 12 years her senior. He died of the plague when she was seven months pregnant. Since she was so young, the birth was extremely difficult.
690nQ TIL around 25% of all mammal species are bats
RnP1 TIL in the final weeks of WWII, Allied torpedo bombers attacked two large German ships even though both ships were flying several large white flags. Nearly all of the 7,000 concentration camp refuges aboard these ships were killed.