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TIL that different pasta colors taste differnt.

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loD4N TIL that Pete Townshend, lead guitarist for The Who, destroyed 37 guitars in 1967 alone.
loX9a TIL that the first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. Also, the ancient Irish, Scots, Norsemen, and Finns loved and valued butter so much they were buried with barrels of it.
6QJm TIL the greatest maritime loss of life in US history is not the Titanic, but a steamboat disaster in 1865. After Union POWs returning from the horrors of Andersonville crowded The Sultana on their way home, 3 of the 4 boilers exploded, sinking the ship on the Mississippi river and killing 1,700
0dAEj TIL Cal Polytechnic placed a commemorative plaque at the bathroom where “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded his breakthrough song “My Bologna” in 1979. It is humorously known as “Studio 229.”
dP6K TIL that the Mars rover Opportunity has been active for over 12 years now, despite a planned duration of activity of only 3 months.