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TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns a sandwich restaurant chain

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Pd6n TIL: Thirty-five percent of people are born without wisdom teeth. Experts believe they will eventually be gone.
newQW TIL A man lost in the Australian outback for 6 days without food or water survived by eating ants
R7yD7 TIL that a person's ability for spacial and verbal memory can be affected by which nostril is used: left, right, or alternate nostril breathing
Bdwk TIL Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp fuel and had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength which were 10 times stronger than steel. If hemp were planted on 6% of the US landmass, it could replace all current demand for oil and gas.
rR7nx TIL Charles Waterton was a naturalist who preceded Darwin. He taught a Guyanese slave to practice taxidermy, who taught Charles Darwin. He is credited as the first man to bring the poison curare to Europe to be used as a veterinary anesthetic, and he liked to dress as a scarecrow and sit in trees.