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TIL during WW1 in Britain the selling of fresh bread was banned and all bread had to be sold stale so people would eat less of it

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VMWQk TIL the red ovenbird, the national bird of Argentina and Uruguay, collects mud and piles it on top of a tree branch while letting it slowly dry, like adobe construction.When completed, its characteristic dome-shaped nest bears a resemblance to an old-fashioned wood-fired oven, hence the bird's name.
Rnb8 TIL that when one of our fingers touches another, we perceive the sensation as weaker than when an external finger touches ours with the same force. Our brain filters the expected result of our own fingers touching in the evolutionary attempt to add importance and sensitivity to external events.
Yd0A TIL: The term ‘Sith’ is never mentioned in the original Star Wars trilogy
amBL TIL Robert Patrick (the guy who plays T-1000 in Terminator 2) was in a boating accident and swam for 3 hours to get help for others
NNP8 TIL that the inspiration for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s character in the Disney film Moana, Maui, a demigod in Polynesian culture, according to Maori Legend, died after he was crushed by the obsidian teeth of another god’s vagina while in the form of a worm, trying to win immortality for humans.