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TIL French toast is older than France.

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PYdxV TIL of the first person to be banned from the internet, Chris Lamprecht (u/mthreat)
4X5bN TIL that many schools in the US still use the "cueing" method to teach students how to read, despite research showing that it's not effective. Cueing strategies include looking at the picture for context and trying to guess what word might make sense when you come to an unknown word.
b9Wx7 TIL that, in 2013, PayPal accidentally paid $92,233,720,368,547,800 - 92 quadrillion dollars - into a Pennsylvanian man's account. His account was quickly returned to its initial amount of $0.
d8wjr TIL Robin Hood is often depicted as wearing “Lincoln Green”, colored clothes. These were dyed from the important clothing town Lincoln, in England and would date his tales to the early or mid 16th century.
VB0Ek TIL that a combustion engine in a car running at 4000rpm will consume ~ 0.2 liters of gasoline per minute, and a staggering 10,000 liters of air per minute.