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TIL Kraft’s boxed mac and cheese became a hit with hungry Americans during World War II because due to a surplus of cheese, you could get two boxes for one ratio point

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YKG7 TIL the oldest piece of paper in the world was found in China and dates back to the second or first century B.C. Paper was so durable, it was sometimes used for clothing and even light body armor.
rNOJM TIL the samurai sword, invented a millennium ago, was a marvel of beauty and engineering. The katana’s two different types of steel gave it optimum qualities to pierce and slash making it a highly versatile weapon in battle.
v1R67 TIL the island of Guadeloupe thought it had its own special species of raccoons which became a cultural icon but it turned out they were just regular raccoons
lN91 TIL that, in the early 1960s, the CIA coined the term ‘Plausible Deniability’ to describe the withholding of information from senior officials in order to protect them from repercussions in the event that illegal or unpopular activities by the CIA became public knowledge.
EaXw TIL in 2010 a Kentucky man was beaten and forced at gunpoint to eat his own beard during a dispute over the price of a used riding lawnmower.