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TIL The forerunner to the pressure cooker, the steam digester, was desigend to separate out fats and prepare bones for bone meal.

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WErd TIL that Donald Trump paid off a man’s mortgage after he helped change flat tires in Trump’s stranded Limo.
yQQYV Exactly today (Dec. 26th, 2016) I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. If you're reading this later, you can do the math yourself. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell.
95V7 TIL Mordor in LOTR is named after the old English word for ‘Murder’.
9YBK7 TIL that in the 1800s in a domain in the Philippines, feudal lords prevented peasants to celebrate festivals except for one every year. The peasants used this opportunity to mock the lords by making giant puppet versions of them. The festival is celebrated yearly since then.
gMKl8 TIL that galvanic reactions between the State of Liberty's copper skin and wrought iron supports caused the iron to corrode. The Statue required extensive renovation, and was entirely disassembled and Teflon insulation placed in between the iron and copper