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TIL that Marjorie Post heiress to the Post Cereal Company purchased the patents from Clarence Birdseye and created Birds Eye Frozen Foods. Post also developed a means to deliver the frozen foods Nationally via Train and also invented the see through freezers at Grocery Stores for visibility.

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Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.
695D8 TIL that Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi had a homicidal urge (usually by dismemberment) every time he was drunk, so his prime minister set up a supply of condemned prisoners to the palace. If a prisoner could survive three months without being killed, he would be set free.
Ox97 TIL In 2014, a rural Iraqi clock maker went to sleep, woke up, and watched a “nice Egyptian film” before realizing he was the last resident remaining after his town had been seized by ISIS. He convinced them he was not a soldier, showed them the Mosque’s light switch, and went back to his house.
ZL9G TIL Richard Nixon ended the draft, founded the EPA and OSHA, signed Title IX, was a proponent of the 26th Amendment, dedicated $100 million to the War on Cancer project, and became the first American President to give Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination.
d8Gd TIL meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.