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TIL: the ancient version of cheesecake dates back to Ancient Greece as early as 5th century BCE!

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yb8l TIL that the mail truck most commonly used by the USPS was produced by Grumman and is called the Long Life Vehicle. Production began in 1987, and a new one hasn’t been produced since 1994.
Ldwr TIL In the 1920s a new species of hominid was discovered in China and given to the United States during WW2 to protect it from the Japanese. The nearly 200 fossils went missing during the attack on Pearl Harbor and have not been seen since.
j6p1E TIL that the first recorded cat video was filmed in 1894 by Thomas Edison, featuring two cats boxing in a ring. There are actually videos of this online
ADXon TIL that songwriter Esther Dean composed “S&M” for Rihanna, then was later cast as Cynthia Rose in the Pitch Perfect movies. This means in the “riff-off” scene in the first movie, Esther got to sing her own song, but as a completely different person. Full circle.
N7Lbb TIL that Korean art has a genre called “chaekgeori” that literally means books and things because their government banned books so they felt the need to paint real-life scale books and position them behind their seats.