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TIL Ciabatta was invented in 1982 to compete with imported baguettes.

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oBAkK TIL there is no agreement on what the value is of Zero to the power of zero.
gMdEW TIL about Alana Saarinen, the girl with three biological parents. Alana’s nuclear DNA is from her mother and father, with mitochondrial DNA from another woman. This procedure has now been banned due to safety and ethical concerns.
4kpVg TIL using ditto marks, or putting quotation marks under words to repeat what they say, goes back as far as the Neo-Assyrian period (934-608 B.C.)
Zpd94 TIL about the Ka'u desert, a desert in the big island of Hawaii, that was created by the acid rains of the eruptions of the mount Kilauea. Is the only insular desert of the USA
yQ8DX TIL that "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" was never meant to be a Christmas carol. The music was originally written for the 400th anniversary of the printing press.