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TIL that a Tokyo-based company invented an in-office machine which turns used copier paper into toilet paper rolls, right in the office.

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EW0p TIL that workers at Nashville airport handled a cellist’s case so roughly they managed to break both the case and the cello inside it. The airline called it a ‘baggage handling irregularity’
0p1v TIL Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, upon seeing the terms given to Germany at Versailles, declared “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”
exkD TIL That the “I Love Lucy” sets, props, and even wardrobe were all just various shades of gray to ensure that the show looked good on B&W TV
yQRWp TIL There was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Pw7e TIL that a Colombian program called kangaroo care, where prematurely born babies are kept in constant skin-to-skin contact with parents, has shown success over hospital incubators in reducing infant mortality.