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TIL Humans have a third set of teeth, but the genes for this set are inactive.

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9YJy6 TIL that the Sperm Whale have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth
loRP7 TIL that the first message ever sent over the internet was “LO” in 1969. A programmer at UCLA attempted to send each letter of the word “LOGIN” to the Stanford Research institute, but the machine crashed after the first two.
R5bj6 TIL in Henry Fords' childhood farming was manual. He wanted to "lift the burden of farming from flesh and blood and place it on steel and motors." Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928.
7AVX TIL that all bananas (or nearly all) consumed in the United States are picked very green, then ‘flash ripened’ by exposing them to ethylene gas. I also learned (see wiki in 1st comment) that ethylene is the most-used organic compound in industry.
x68yD TIL in the 2000s, Laura Albert passed herself as JT LeRoy, a former juvenile prostitute heroin-user with AIDS, writing books as him and hiring her boyfriend's step-sister to impersonate him