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TIL that the first bread slicing machine was Invented by Otto Fredrick from Iowa in 1928.

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Wkp7N TIL that in Colorado, the mile 420 sign on Interstate 70 got stolen so many times that it got replaced by a sign reading mile 419.99
4wAb TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.
LXWr TIL Silent reading is a recent phenomenon. Only the most skilled readers of the middle ages could read silently.
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