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

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MLya TIL that the dispute over whether Newton or Leibniz invented calculus was decided by the Royal Society. Newton, as the President, appointed an impartial committee to decide the issue, which concluded in its official report that Newton was the inventor. Newton was the anonymous author of the report.
DQoWV TIL TJ Maxx was originally a subsidiary of the now defunct Zayre Department store chain.
kOVQ7 TIL if you see a tornado and it is not moving side to side, this is a strong indication that it is moving directly towards you.
vN4 TIL Nicolas cage had a tooth extracted without novocain for his role in “Birdie” and ate a live cockroach for his role in “Vampires Kiss”
x6kA7 TIL: There's a tree in South Africa called the Sunland Baobab that has a naturally formed hollow space inside large enough to contain a small pub, which can accommodate around 15 people