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TIL The little pink part in the inside corner of your eye is left over from when we had an inner eyelid.

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16pbd TIL about Danish Pålægschokolade, which translates to “chocolate to put on bread”. They are thin slices of chocolate that are used as a topping on bread, such as rye or white bread, similar to how chocolate spread is used in many countries.
rWge TIL that Claudette Colvin was the first African American woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent their organization because she was 15 years old and pregnant.
E1P0V TIL that Dickens once told Dostoevsky that two people lived inside of him, a good one and a bad one. "Only two people?" Dostoevsky then asked.
0dRlA TIL Before 2012, Pizza Hut was the largest purchaser of kale in the US, but they only used it as garnish for their salad bars.
bVk7 TIL Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as “a piece of Internet history.”