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TIL Al Capone pioneered the concept of “sell by” dates.

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xVV4D TIL before Sony stopped supporting OtherOS, the PS3 was such an effective Linux system, institutions like University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Carolina State University & the U.S Armed Forces used PS3 clusters making an affordable high-performance computing system to create a supercomputer.
Oo4xY TIL about rangeomorphs. Ancient organisms that lived before the Cambrian Explosion that are the only known organisms to reproduce in geometrical patterns called fractals.
VdrG TIL - A Texas man was arrested for attempting to pay a $600 property bill with $1 notes folded so tightly it reportedly “required tax office personnel approximately six minutes to unfold each bill”.
gMDM4 TIL: Potato Plants Can Form Berries Which Are Toxic
dDp5d TIL the US did not have an official national anthem until 1931. Many songs were used, including the SSB.