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TIL Cobra Commander from GI Joe appears in Transfrmers Generation 1 s3e23.

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OR71 TIL over 300 incidents of child murder occurred in 1700s Germany and Austria due to incidents of “suicide by proxy”. Religious people were killing young children in order to have the government execute them so they could get into heaven.
AN66x TIL Sticky rice was mixed with slaked lime to create a mortar that held the bricks of the Great Wall of China together.
kJO4m TIL that chocolate is crystalline and therefore has six phases (different ways of arranging crystals). This is important for the production of glossy, brittle, melt-in-mouth-not-in-hand tempered chocolate.
Wyjo TIL Canada had a program where they paid everyone a guaranteed income which wholly reduced poverty overnight and increased productivity.
OYag T.I.L. that Clowns International, the oldest clown registry in the world, keeps a gallery of eggs painted with individual member’s makeup patterns. Whenever a member dies, their egg is smashed. It works as a form of copyright.