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Til that cylinder pillows are called “bolsters” I have been calling them “hot dog pillows before learning this

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68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.
7rmAb TIL the first ever film rated "PG-13" by the MPAA was Red Dawn in 1984, Before that it went straight from PG to Rated R
wLrA7 Today i learned that the first 3d printer was created 40 years ago in 1980
7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons