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

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0kkN TIL that all of the six remaining William Shakespeare signatures have different spelling
rR7my TIL that prior the 1800’s, the use of the word “Propaganda" was commonly associated with the Vaticans “pontifical administration” to further Catholicism in third world countries.
oBa07 TIL of French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud. He invented the Théâtre Optique, a device for projecting film made several years before the cinematograph (the first widespread projector). Reynaud made the first animated films ever but threw them into a river in a fit of depression. All but one is lost
eAVJ TIL the Honey Badger uses “suffocating” gases from its reversible anal pouch to sedate bees while raiding a beehive
lXP5 TIL that you would have to smoke 1500 pounds of weed in 14 minutes to get a lethal dose of THC. The interesting things you learn in pharmacy school :)