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TIL that forks used to be a thing in ancient China but were later replaced by chopsticks

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N9NE TIL George Hjorth parachuted into France three nights before D-day with three film cameras. His mission was to hide in front of the German lines at Normandy and film whatever happened on the beach. He completed the mission successfully, but the film is lost in the archives.
Oo5Kg TIL - If you bite it and die, it is poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it is venomous.
7Jwx TIL when John Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers. Carmack concocted a sticky substance of Thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an accomplice set off an alarm & alerted police. Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
78b6Z TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler
dgD9 TIL 1) a goat reached the rank of lance corporal in the British Army and 2) got demoted for inappropriate behavior during the Queen’s Official Birthday.