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TIL Canada is only 1.5% larger than the USA
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TIL the color of the twist tie on bread products indicates what day of the week it was made.
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TIL of Vesta Stoudt. During World War 2, she came up with the idea for duct tape at her factory job. After her supervisors rejected the idea, she wrote president Roosevelt, he liked the idea and gave the letter to the War Production Board
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TIL that the myth of Prometheus having his liver eaten daily actually has some scientific basis, as the liver can regrow itself
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TIL: David Bowie had a cameo in the (largely Monty Python) film "Yellowbeard"
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TIL the phrase “No Spring Chicken”, originated in the early 1700’s, farmers found that chickens born in the spring brought better prices than ‘old’ ones that had gone through winter. When farmers tried to sell the old birds as 'new spring born’, buyers complained that they were 'no spring chicken’.