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TIL in 1999, the Peanut Butter Blossom was one of ten recipes inducted into the Pillsbury Bake-Off Hall of Fame at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

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D1V8J TIL that programming and coding uses the same regions of the brain as speech.
dn6Q TIL there is no evidence Marie Antoinette ever said “let them eat cake”. In fact she was widely known for looking after the poor and several times depleted her accounts to feed and shelter them during famines.
neo5W TIL about the Winchester Mansion, a 161-room California monstrosity built by widower Sarah Winchester, who's husband had invented the Winchester rifle. She believed that spirits of those killed by his rifles were haunting her; so she added rooms, hallways, and passages to nowhere to appease them.
awgL TIL The majority of child abuse victims are not traumatized by their experience and in fact go along with it only to later feel guilty for not feeling the way society tells them they should
M7V1K TIL all black holes emit radiation and, if they don’t consume enough matter, eventually evaporate and disappear