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TIL the renouned British pub meal, 'Ploughman's Lunch', was invented in the 1950s as a marketing exercise. The Cheese Bureau, a marketing body, began promoting it in pubs as a way to increase the sales of cheese, which had recently ceased to be rationed.

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kORw4 TIL that a baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after an off-duty rescue worker performed CPR on it. The man had worked in rescue for 26 years and performed dozens of CPR attempts on humans, but the elephant was the first victim he had ever managed to revive
dDAx7 TIL The famous "rods from god" concept of a space-based weapons system of orbiting tungsten rods was developed by science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle.
5Yvyp TIL that no one is sure who wrote the original music to the song "Respect," most famously sung by Aretha Franklin. The original performer, Otis Redding, gets the sole songwriting credit, but he took the music and some of the lyrics from an artist who had copied it from another unknown guitarist.
QNdP9 TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.
QNM5a TIL that in 1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio literally caught on fire, which resulted in the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency the next year