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TIL Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner before the head of the struggling company realized the non-toxic material made a good modelling clay for children and rebranded it.

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BgVJy TIL that in China, thousands of teenagers have been labeled as "internet addicts" and sent to internet addiction clinics which are just psychiatric facilities that abuse them since 2002
XEMx8 TIL Alabama still hasn’t removed segregation from it’s constitution. Section 256: “Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.”
GYe17 TIL that contrary to popular belief, bread is very bad for ducks and birds in general! Bread provides these animals with no nutritional value, makes them prone to dietary deficiencies and can even cause the death of the animal due to the salt contained in the bread.
klxE TIL according to the FBI’s 2007 statistics, interracial violent crime is at least 8x more likely to be black on white than white on black. The study found over 430,000 instances of black on white robberies, murders, assaults, etc., compared to about 55,000 white on black violent crimes
ngvb TIL that the deepest London Underground station, 221ft underground, was never completed and was used to store secret archives during WWII