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

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0NPy TIL In the past 6 years, a recent trend has broken out in Jamaica to bleach skin in order to make it lighter and a popular Jamaican rapper has even released his own line of skin bleaching products.
69vDW TIL an estimated 121K people in England died in 2022 awaiting treatment. That’s a death rate of 220 per 100K. Other estimates put that number even higher at 340K, or a rate of 618 per 100K.
WVjL TIL Voyager I and II are currently in the Heliosheath, nearly 19 billion miles away. They could possibly prove to be the most valuable thing humans have ever done…
lAYG TIL lab tests have shown that cats don’t love you the way dogs do. Tests has shown that a dog releases Oxytocin (love hormone) in their brains at MUCH higher levels when compared to cats. A dog releases upwards to 60% while a cat releases 12%.
yQvbw TIL archeologists are using LiDAR to survey the South American rainforests. The results have helped reveal over 60000 previously undiscovered ruins, part of a much greater civilization than previously thought.