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TIL stainless steel is made stainless by adding chrome to the steel

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loOya TIL that teddy bears exist because "Teddy" Roosevelt refused to kill a real bear
v1PwD TIL: The Soviet Union built the first supersonic airliner (before the Concorde) and it was a disastrous failure
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