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TIL that breakfast is called breakfast because you break the fast you've been observing since you went to sleep the night before.

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rBo TIL That the creator of Magic:the gathering, Richard Garfield, proposed to his wife with a custom made Magic card.
gr58y TIL after the setbacks in the Korean War, US considered using nuclear weapons in North Korea and parts of China, intending to create a belt of radioactive fallout zones between China and North Korea. Enemy could not have marched across that for at least 60 years.
k8Bd TIL Thomas Edison was a jealous asshole. He was so jealous of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla that he would publicly electrocute animals to prove how bad Alternating Current was. Edison jumped at the chance to publicly electrocute Topsy the elephant at The Luna Park Zoo.
gAj7 TIL that the U.S. government produced 500,000 Purple Heart medals to prepare for the 1945 invasion of Japan. When the operation never took place, the medals were placed in storage and distributed. All military action since then (including Korea and Vietnam) still has not depleted the supply.
oBMNE TIL a male Kangaroo is called a boomer.