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TILlondon based innovative start-up called Skipping Rocks Lab, a group of researchers and business developers whose aim is to make product packaging obsolete “Ooho”- A sustainable water bottle you can eat and drink declares war on plastic bottles

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PYGaE TIL the Spanish Inquisition was devoid of its own budget, meaning it depended exclusively on the confiscation of the goods of the denounced. Due to this organization and possibility of abuse, someone wrote a letter to the king saying of the inquisitors "if they do not burn they do not eat".
wLj01 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
gMy74 TIL: That an Alberta Firehall has a safe box to anonymously surrender babies that is heated bassinet and has a silent alarm to alert once it's closed.
j6dlp TIL about Yang Kyoungjong, a Korean soldier during WW2 that was conscripted to fight for Japan, was then captured and forced to fight by the Russians, and then again captured and forced to fight for the Germans at Normandy. He was then finally captured by the Allies and sent to the US.
oBVm8 TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.