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TIL that in 2016, Kraft replaced the artificial ingredients in its macaroni and cheese with natural ingredients. Nobody noticed.

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Ol54 TIL That In 1915 Sir Cecil Chubb purchased Stonehenge plus the adjoining 30 acres for approximately $10,000 ‘on a whim’ as a gift for his wife who, it’s claimed, was none too pleased.
4eV5 TIL that when Columbia caught their secret police agencies abusing their power and breaking the law they disbanded them.
Lk8dQ TIL Dolphins sleep 'unihemispheric'. They rest one hemisphere of their brain at a time, and even sleep with one eye open. They cannot breathe unconsciously; they have to actively decide when to breathe & would drown if they slept 'polyhemispheric' like us.
P1LYg TIL when the Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the bill was given the identifier "H.R. 1776."
YpWMG TIL because of their features and dark skin, the Roma people were mistaken for Egyptians when they moved westward from India to the European continent, leading to the term "gypsy." Many Roma reject the term "gypped" as it assumes deception and trickery.