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TIL that cotton candy was invented by a dentist

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mxLER TIL that the percussion cap was invented by a Scottish reverend whose guns were too slow for goose and wild game hunting.
Q4na TIL that the egg industry puts male and female chicks on a conveyor belt and after picking out the males, throws them into a grinding machine alive.
1aj5W TIL that Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd".
vPKJL TIL Merriam Webster has an alphabetised index of 315,000 cards with every word in dictionary spelled backwards on them. Before the internet, the cards were used to identify words that end with the same letters.
rR9E1 TIL Many Roman-British temples are dedicated to a mysterious local god called Deo Veteri, translated as "The Old God". His temples were often featureless brick squares that formed roofless isolation chambers. Believers would enter, face east, and meditate. (second source in comments)