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TIL today I learned about Horses & The Mechanized Myth of the Eastern Front

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JYjVV TIL TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank. In 1953, a Swanson worker misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving by 26 TONS! Somebody then came up with a plan: Why not slice the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side? Thus, the first TV dinner was born!
wR57 TIL of the Fremdschämen, the German word for the horror you feel when noticing someone is oblivious to how embarrassing they are.
Jw0l TIL that Artist Siren Elise Wilhelmsen designed a Clock that knits a Scarf a year
DAme TIL that babies are born without kneecaps.
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