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TIL that non-naked mole rats do exist.

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yg8w TIL Arunachalam Muruganantham invented a simple method to produce low-cost sanitary pads in India. It took 4.5 years, his wife & mother left, & he was expelled from his village.“Luckily I’m not educated.If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop. You have no fear of the future”
5o7R TIL that in 1995 the Church of Scientology imprisoned, dehydrated and starved a mentally ill woman for 17 days until she died.
a86By TIL that Bhutan held mock elections with 4 mock parties to prepare the country for a democratic transition. The two first-round winners chose high school students for candidates in the second round.
yye TIL that the founder of FedEx once saved the company by taking its last $5,000 and turning it into $32,000 by gambling in Las Vegas.
QNW6a TIL the first mac & cheese recipe dates to the year 1390, when it appeared in the cookbook "The Forme of Cury". It used fresh, hand-cut pasta sandwiched between a mixture of melted butter and grated cheese.