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TIL a group of men fought in the American Revolution and lived to see the Civil War end.

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Ea8W TIL Hot Cheetos were invented by a Mexican immigrant working as a janitor in a Frito-Lay plant, who is now an executive. After a machine broke, he took some plain Cheetos home, and created his own recipe inspired by street elotes. The president let him pitch it even though he barely spoke English.
Z8KDY TIL that the Federal Writer's Project paid out-of-work writers and journalists to produce state guidebooks and collect personal histories for thousands of Americans during the great depression
j6Vwp TIL about Tirthankara who, according to Jainist tradition. conquered the saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth, whose teachings form the basis for the Jain canons. In Jain tradition, tirthankara pave the way for others: their grace is available to all living beings, regardless of religion.
xjo TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.
woZm8 TIL that Minecraft became the first video game ever to reach 300 million copies sold worldwide and this equates to it having sold 47 copies per minute, every minute, since the game's release in 2011.