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TIL The oldest archeological discovery of soup in Chinese history, believed to be 2400 years old, was found in the ancient capital of Xian

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Wk8gB TIL That Martin Newell needed a simple mathematical model of a familiar object for his work in 1975. He created what is considered today to be the "Utah Teapot", a 3D test model that has become a standard reference object for testing and demonstrating rendering algorithms and visual effects.
r84w TIL after a waitress at a pizzeria helped a customer choose the numbers for a winning lottery ticket in 1984, he ‘tipped’ her $3,000,000 - half of his $6,000,000 prize money.
VB4XQ TIL Frankie Muniz (Malcom in the middle) Is a professional stock car driver
0daD1 TIL that every year an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide, making them the most littered item on the planet.
jN8NX TIL about former American slave, John Berry Meachum, who began teaching classes for black people on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River to work around the state of Missouri's prohibition of black education.