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TIL the word “gypped” is derogatory slang created from the belief that gypsies are thieves and swindlers

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yVQl TIL Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders once took a different drug every day for several weeks, making a portrait of himself while under the influence of each drug.
jNp0j TIL they make power tools for amish people that are powered by compressed air instead of electricity
9wOKQ TIL about author of the hymn " Amazing Grace " had a rather colorful vocabulary. During his tenure as a sailor, he was reprimanded on several occasions for using language that was deemed inappropriate by the captain, and for creating new words that were deemed to be even more offensive.
E1xLV TIL a group of well preserved wooden spears were unearthed at a German coal mine. They are between 380,000 and 400,000 years old, making them at least 75x older than the pyramids of Eygpt. These are the oldest wooden artifacts ever unearthed.
WEbA TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.