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TIL Ciabatta bread was only recently invented in 1982

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neamo TIL in the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of Mad magazine was published which didn't contain new material by cartoonist Al Jaffee. At age 97 as of 2018, Jaffee still does the "Fold-in" for MAD.
woAr6 TIL when Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector, he signed his name as Oliver P, the "P" standing for "Protector." This mirrored the practices of monarchs signing their name with "R", which stood for "Rex" or "Regina".
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
oBXkR TIL the kid knocking trashcans over in "Friday" was based on an actual kid named Chris who would knock cans over in Ice Cube's neigborhood. However, unlike the kid in the movie, the real Chris never got caught.
9aW7 TIL Mel Blanc’s characterization of Daffy Duck holds the world record for the longest characterization of one animated character by his or her original actor. 52 years is the record.