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TIL the Chinese takeout box is an American invention that has never been used in China.

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Rnvj TIL food taste less for humans in space, since “Without gravity to pull fluids down, astronauts’ sinuses get clogged up and they can’t really taste much of anything”
LQpXP TIL that in recorded history, there has only been a single hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean to which made landfall. Ever.
QXja TIL two Christian monks smuggled silkworms out of China in bamboo canes. Those silkworms were used to give the Byzantine Empire a trade monopoly in Europe, which became the foundation of their economy for the next 650 years.
rR0dy TIL about William Breckinridge, a captain of the Confederacy who later renounced the views that led him to fight for them and became a racial equality advocate. He also represented blacks in court as a lawyer and was even noted by a black lawyer that he had helped many blacks in their law careers.
690b7 TIL of John "Jack's Kirby, goalkeeper for Derby County, who was ordered along with his teammates to give a Nazi salute on their 1934 tour of Germany. He refused.