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TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.

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4Xo06 TIL that sled dogs can run without getting tired because their bodies can directly burn fat and protein for energy whereas other animals need carbs to do so.
Lk1V0 TIL — Pommer’s Law, one of the "Laws" of the Internet, states: “A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.”
LQ5em TIL that hotels collect guests’ used soaps which are then scraped to remove hair and and other stuff, then melted down and made into new soaps.
x6NW1 TIL that J.K. Simmons has voiced the yellow M&M since 1996 and that the ongoing role allowed him to pursue better roles through the increased financial freedom.
xJ7 TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot, flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft.