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TIL the tv show “How It’s Made” has covered the manufacturing process for over 1200 different various items since 2001.

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5lpD TIL a man renovated a three story hotel specifically to kill people. It included stairways to nowhere and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms. He killed as many as 200 people in it. The skeletons of his victims were sold to medical schools.
Z80V4 TIL of Project Gutenberg. This Volunteer Effort has Digitized over 57,000 Books within Public Domain from throughout Human History for you to Read Online for Free
0gGj TIL that Frank Zappa and David Bowie once had dinner together, during which Frank refused to say anything to Bowie besides “Fuck you, Captain Tom.”
4Q1X [TIL] Pregnancy Tests are one of the most shoplifted items in the U.S.
X6nk TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.