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TIL The Last VCRS were produced in July of 2016

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9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.
m1Nep TIL about the list of people scheduled to be executed in the United States
7JDZ TIL The “rib” in the biblical story of Adam and Eve may actually be a mistranslation of a euphemism for the baculum, a bone found in most mammals penises, to explain it’s absence in humans.
A5Kd TIL There is a terrarium, or sealed ecosystem that is 50 years old and thriving.
4XAbN TIL of Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani journalist who dared to write the truth about the atrocities committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh in 1971. He flew to UK to ‘visit a sick sister’ and agreed to get it run in the Sunday Times. The story ran the day after he snuck his family out of Pakistan.