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TIL in 1941 Henry Ford made a car from hemp and soybean plastic which ran on ethanol

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6MYl TIL that Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge and didn’t eat any of it.
mLpY TIL of Iqbal Masih (1983-1995), a Pakistani child who, at age four, was sold into bondage by his family, escaped after years of hardship and helped thousands of children flee bondage labor through his internatioal activism. He was assasinated at age 12.
p8m7Q TIL Caterpillars almost completely digest themselves into a protein rich soup inside their chrysalis and then form their adult body around 'imaginal discs', highly specialized cells that rapidly form into adult parts.
N7MvP TIL that during the shooting of Westworld, actors knew only their parts of the script, and only on a "need-to-know" basis. Anthony Hopkins had to fight to get access to full scripts.
ZOKQ TIL Approximately half of the atoms in our bodies originated in the Milky Way, while the other half are from other galaxies.