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TIL that Oreo cookies creme were originally made with Lard

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R5gJ6 TIL Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is believed to have been made dictator of Rome on two separate occasions. On both occasions Cincinnatus quickly dealt with the problem at hand and resigned after 15 days in 458 BC and 21 days in 439 BC.
nABW TIL a dog named Chaser has the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them by name and by category.
J1ppB TIL that a computer programmer became a romance author. After developing SuperBASIC for the Sinclair QL computer, Jan Jones began writing fiction; her first book, 'Stage By Stage' (2005), won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award.
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