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TIL that there is a major, large-scale recycling program for used Taco Bell sauce packets.

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a8Glb TIL Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who preceded Sherlock Holmes by 46 years. In Sherlock Holmes's first story, Watson directly compares Holmes to Dupin.
jNQ9R TIL that the first Roman emperor, Augustus, had a net worth of about $4.6 trillion. In comparison, Jeff Bezos would need to multiply his net worth ($180 billion) by 25 to come close to it.
e0xY5 TIL Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, is related to John Harington, the man who invented the first flushable toilet.
aVMZ TIL that Australia’s first police force was made up of 12 of the ‘best behaved’ convicts.
69enJ TIL that in 1951, 250 people were poisoned by "cursed bread" made with flour tainted with fungus in a small town in France. 50 people were interned in asylums and there were 7 deaths!