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TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982

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agPL TIL birds, fish, and frogs naturally recover from noise-induced hearing loss as their auditory organs automatically regenerate. Mammals lost this ability 300 million years ago.
PYgBJ TIL About the Treaty on Open Skies. This treaty, signed in 2002, allows signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over each other's territories in order to ensure complete transparency and trust. Countries that have their area observed can request any imagery taken, at their own cost.
E10pp TIL that there is a group of sea wolves on Vancouver Island that can swim for miles and 90% of their diet is seafood. They primarily eat salmon but also forage on barnacles, lams, herring eggs, seals, and river otters.
PRVZ TIL that During the financial crisis of 1720, known as the South Sea Bubble, the Houses of Parliament called for stockbrokers to be sewn into sacks filled with poisonous snakes and thrown into the River Thames
Doop TIL Theodore Roosevelt was against the phrase “In God We Trust” on currency as he considered it sacriligious