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TIL that dog and cat feces is a better fertilizer than most manures because of it's high phosphorus content.

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yVoml TIL that when writing in the Hanunó'o script, used for an indigenous language in the Philippines, right-handed and left-handed people often write texts that are mirror images of each other, both in letter orientation and writing direction.
J1Mv4 TIL that the first bread slicing machine was Invented by Otto Fredrick from Iowa in 1928.
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