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TIL that one of the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce use ANCHOVIES

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5VJNQ TIL Ada Lovelace, early pioneer of computing and talented mathematician was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron.
WDKY TIL One of the most important Medieval innovations was the horse collar, which allowed horses to use their full strength to pull loads or to plow and which only came to Europe around 920 AD.
n1x7 TIL: Boston had an all-black Police force named “The Soul Patrol”
poxN TIL in 1997 the founder and chief editor of Vegetarian Times magazine, Paul Obis, shocked readers by suddenly resigning saying “Twenty two years of tofu is a lot of time” and “I want to go to Wrigley Field and have a hot dog”.
bLG9 TIL the insecticide"BTI" was discovered when a man stumbled upon a stagnate pond in Israel where he noticed dead mosquito larvae. Scientists isolated the bacteria strain found in pond, creating the safest and most effective way of managing and killing mosquito populations throughout the world.