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TIL Tablecloths were designed to be used as one big, communal napkin during the Renaissance period. When they were first invented, guests were meant to wipe off their hands and faces on a tablecloth after a messy dinner party.

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9Kyp TIL Disney has credited their coffee guy in 7 of their films
8eRNa TIL that cats teeth have a “blood groove” that prevents suction when they bite. This allows them to pull out and bite again more quickly.
d8JVB TIL: Gray seals are known to engage in cannibalism
VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
rGeo TIL The Sustainable Dance Floor uses the kinetic energy produced when people move as a source of energy that is then converted into electricity. People will be able to generate their own energy to illuminate the space around them, just by walking over SEF modules.