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TIL a 7-Eleven Slurpee Straw is in the Museum of Modern Art's collection for design, and its designer has also designed a tool for the treatment of skin cancer.

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ZL14 TIL that the Titanic captain Edward Smith had crashed another ship just seven months before the Titanic sunk
b9E07 TIL that the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' is over 5000 years old, making it one of the oldest stories that we know of that is still told today.
e0pb4 TIL it takes more water to make a water bottle than the water it contains
p6wA TIL - A botched circumcision removed a young boy’s penis leading to him being brought as a female as part of a study to show that children are not by nature feminine or masculine. He rejected his female reassignment and later committed suicide.
NwM6 Til the popcorn was invented in Peru 3600 BC