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TIL toothpicks are made from birch wood

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WkYx9 TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor
neDyB TIL that there is a reservoir in space that holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
5Y5pk TIL: Banksy snuck a Beetle with fighter jet wings, missiles and a radar dish called Withus Oragainstus into the Museum of Natural History
wp48 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt vocally disapproved of putting “In God We Trust” on US currency, saying “It seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins, just as it would be to cheapen it by use on postage stamps, or in advertisements.”
6EEOX If you’re a mammal, no. But if you're not...