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TIL A place in San Francisco has been making bread with the same starter for 160 years.

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wL9mM TIL The author of the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, create another novel (Island) which reversed the cultures and roles of the civilized and savages.
D1AZp TIL the Arizona Gazette ran a front page article in 1909 on two "Smithsonian-funded archaeologists" who discovered a massive underground cave city beneath the Grand Canyon. The city allegedly contained Egyptian hieroglyphics, mummies, and a Buddha-like statue. The Smithsonian refutes the claims.
8ebKK TIL that when Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982, he got mocked and shamed. Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling spoke of the discovery, saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." In 2011 Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery.
J16Q8 TIL the space shuttle would orbit tail-first due to space debris, this allowed it to take a greater proportion of the debris load on the engines and rear cargo bay, which were not needed in orbit or during descent.
gQx4 TIL that the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola stayed at a nickel for over 70 years. As a result, vending machines only took nickels, and before raising prices to a dime the president of the company asked President Eisenhower to mint 7.5 cent coins to keep the increase reasonable.