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TIL: Smuckers Uncrustables sends all of their discarded crusts to be made into animal feed.

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7evx TIL The very high cost of Diamonds and the public perception as a symbol of romance, was a manufactured phenomenon to create profit for a conspiracy of diamond mining organisations
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
nYgG TIL that pop rocks (and other popping candy) work by carbonating the candy in its liquid state, creating high pressure pockets of gas that are released when you eat it. Effectively, its a carbonated food as opposed to a carbonated beverage.
MevrW TIL that spies can eavesdrop on a conversation from hundreds of feet away, just by watching a light bulb’s vibrations through a telescope.
R7Np8 TIL Tibor Rubin survived the Holocaust, fought for the US Army during the Korean War, became a POW, and had to wait 55 years to receive his Medal of Honor, all because his sergeant was an anti-Semite.