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TIL Melitta Bentz created the coffee filter using paper from her son's school notebook

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JYGOQ TIL the US Army developed a process for “meat restructuring” in the 1960s, which directly led to the invention of the McRib
orPR TIL the first Olympic flag went missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until a 1920 olympian revealed he’d had it in his suitcase the whole time
KYWbJ TIL about Stoccareddo, an isolated Italian village known for its inbreeding, founded by a single family 800 years ago the village grew to 400 people today, 95% of which share the same surname of the original family (Baù)
mxDRx TIL Steven Seagal claimed to be immune to chokeholds. To prove it, he had a stuntman put him in a hold. Seagal promptly lost consciousness and shit himself.
5YjLk TIL that precious metals like gold can be artificially created in particle accelerators. Basically lighter atoms are bombarded with neutrons and electrons making them turn into heavier atoms which then decay into the desired metal. Unfortunately, the process is extremely expensive.