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TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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graAb TIL that medical students and suffragettes clashed during the Brown Dog affair in 1900s. A small brown dog was dissected when Swedish women protested as they claim the dog was conscious during the procedure. Then medical and vet students united and let off a stink bomb at an animal activist's talk.
v1O4j TIL Nicolas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her. Arquette thought it was strange but played along by creating a list of things to fulfill to win her. As he worked through the list, she got scared and avoided him. Strangely, they met again years later and eventually married.
P1NML TIL Samuel Chalfant, a dentist who made dentures without patent approval, murdered Josiah Bacon, the royalty collector for Goodyear Vulcanite Company's patent on rubber dentures. After the murder, the company stopped enforcing the patent, and dentists were able to provide dentures without royalties.
6E5GZ TIL The Pillars Of Creation don't exist anymore and were destroyed by a supernova several thousand years ago, but we won't see it happen for another thousand years.
VBXQ8 TIL Tortoise shells aren't just for protection. The shells are connected directly into the tortoise's nervous system. These nerves give the shell the ability to transmit both pleasure and pain sensations.