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TIL that sliced bread was first sold on 7 July 1928, by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was hailed as “the greatest forward step in baking since bread was wrapped” and by 1933, 80% of US bread was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

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drX7 TIL that in Monrovia, Liberia, a man with a ‘blackboard blog’ brings up-to-date information to people. For over 10 years, he has used a public bulletin board and painstakingly written out the day’s news for all to see, all at no charge. He has an audience of over 10,000 readers.
65XQ TIL of a now closed down amusement park that responsible for at least 6 peoples deaths. They even had to offer it’s own employees a hundred dollars to test out one of the waterslides.
wkDW TIL that until 2007, it was completely legal for women in New Zealand to rape or sexually abuse children, being that no laws existed which legislated against such crimes.
MeGOa TIL there is a cave in Romania that has been isolated for 5.5 million years and contains more than 30 species that exist nowhere else in the world, that had been leaving with an air different than ours.
Ady7 TIL In the Judge Dredd universe, corpses are taken to “Resyk Centers” where they are recycled for food, manufacturing and organ donation. Funeral services are frequently held at Resyk so the bereaved can say goodbye to their loved ones, and purchase reasonably priced souvenirs at the gift shop.