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TIL that everyday flour can be a propellant for an explosion. If a cloud of flour reaches a critical concentration in the air it forms an explosive mixture.

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vnbD TIL that the chicken nugget was invented by a Cornell University food science professor, who published the results academically instead of patenting them.
nWWNd TIL that there are 250 species of ants who are growing fungi. Some practice lower agriculture, harvesting implemented wild fungi, while others like the Leave Cutter Ants practice high agriculture, growing their own, fully domesticated fungi which are completely dependent on their ant farmers.
E1bn0 TIL the first statue of a black person in Bristol, UK was erected in 1987 and is of the playwright and poet Alfred Fagon
wBg1 TIL that Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Wall, got a “B” in her architecture class for her design from her professor who also submitted a design for the wall - losing to his student.
epyWJ TIL that Sesame Street was fiercely rejected by the BBC in 1971 because it had “authoritarian aims”. Monica Sims, the network head of childrens programming at the time stated “This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television.”