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TIL: The little drawer on the bottom of your oven is meant to keep food farm or broil food

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pY58 TIL that when asked what caused Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney replied “In one word, George, drugs. Pot.” When the interviewer said “but you weren’t on it all the time” McCartney replied: “Yes, we were. Sgt. Pepper was a drug album.”
P1bye TIL Alfred Canning surveyed the 1900km Canning Stock Route through the Western Australian desert by capturing and chaining Indigenous people and force feeding them salt - coercing them to show the survey party the way to water. A Royal Commission exonerated the survey party of any wrongdoing.
E4k7 TIL the “50% divorce rate” for all marriages is a myth. The number is closer to 30% and varies among different groups.
bK4Z TIL a patent is pending on a “Jar with a Twist” – a container for dispensing peanut butter and other similar products – that has a rotating bottom which functions similar to a deodorant stick to bring the contents of the jar up towards the top for easier access.
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