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TIL PowerPoint is Turing Complete

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7rXB7 TIL after a cremation, you don’t get “ash” back. They take leftover bones and pulverize it into a powder
Egovx TIL, children born in the early to mid-1980s are called "The DuckTales Generation" in Hungary, because their first encounter with politics happened in 1993, when a DuckTales episode they've been waiting for all week was cut short to announce the death of Prime Minister József Antall.
EgEmX TIL Canadian Physicians Can Now Prescribe Nature To Patients
xLEb TIL In early versions of the board game Monopoly, there were no tokens. Instead, players were encouraged to use common household items like buttons and thimbles. The now-popular Monopoly tokens were released in 1937, modeled after the most popular items that players would use.
v15rj TIL the US government created a raisin cartel that was run by raisin companies, which increased prices by limiting the supply, and forced farmers to hand over their crops without paying them. The cartel lasted 66 years until the Supreme Court broke it up in 2015.