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TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982
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TIL Ford's first car, a 1903 Model A with an original price of $850, sold at auction in 2012 for $264,000. This specific car was the third 1903 Model A made by Ford and is the oldest known surviving Ford car. The buyer was William Clay Ford Jr, the great-grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford.
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TIL that a two toed sloth in 2001 was discovered hanging under a field research team’s latrine, scooping up the mixture of feces, urine and toilet paper and eating it.
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TIL The Stethoscope was invented because French physician Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec felt uncomfortable placing his face on a woman’s breasts to listen to her heartbeat
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TIL David Koresh and the Branch Davidians set their own fires in their Waco Texas compound as a self-fulfilling prophecy, killing their own followers and children.
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TIL of Pareidolia, the tendency of people to see faces, animals or objects in random data, such as clouds. The Rorschach test attempts to use this phenomenon to gain insight into a person's mental state.