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TIL Neapolitan ice cream was invented in Prussia, not Italy

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aw9xM TIL NASA once fixed a broken Hubble Telescope by turning it off and on again
x6EZ7 TIL most Scottish people are of Germanic Angle decent, not Celtic/Gaelic and the Scots language diverged from Early Middle English and is different to Scottish Gaelic which came from Irish colonisation of Scotland, who the Romans called "Scotti"
b6yeZ TIL that cellophane is not made from plastic but is produced from plants - using regenerated cellulose derived from organic materials including wood, cotton and hemp.
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