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TIL Cheese is the most stolen food in the world
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TIL until the 1970s, lookism in the United States was sometimes codified into law. In many jurisdictions, so-called "ugly laws" barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly
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TIL that refining a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil yields 20gal gasoline, 7gal diesel, and 17gal of petroleum byproducts such as propane, ammonia and plastic material, totaling 44 gallons; a net gain of 2 gallons.
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TIL scientists recently discovered a pregnant dinosaur for the first time, allowing us to learn about egg laying and gender differences in dinosaurs
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TIL Thomas Edison’s last breath is stored in a test tube
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TIL that there was a fish-eating dinosaur called "Irritator" that lived in Brazil. It got its name because paleontologists were confused and annoyed by how a complete skull of the dinosaur was artificially elongated by a fossil dealer using bone from other parts of the body and car body filler.