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TIL before Julia child became famous for her endeavors with the joy of cooking she was on the business of making shark repellant for the USA OSS

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YpxNG TIL of the Machine Identification Code. A series of secret dots that certain printers leave on every piece of paper they print, giving clues to the originator and identification of the device that printed it. It was developed in the 1980s by Canon and Xerox but wasn't discovered until 2004.
M7AOA TIL that people who live in cities are 30% more likely to be depressed than people living in rural areas
neNkY TIL that if you lose 75% of your liver, it'll grow back completely in one year.
XvgD TIL that in 2008 in New Jersey, more than 30 officers, including SWAT team members, were engaged in a standoff with a non-responsive supposed bank robber for over an hour before realizing ‘she’ was a cardboard cut-out.
OwY TIL that the Gulf Stream is the reason for the caucasian skin color, blonde hair, and blue eyes.