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TIL that printer manufacturers make most of their money from ink and often make no money for the sale printer itself

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mGLv TIL that if you cut a potato into pieces and bury them separately, each piece will grow into a new potato
ANaAo TIL The seemingly nonsense phrase 'Fee-fi-fo-fum' from the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk is likely a sentence in ancient Gaelic meaning "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger!" The phrase is atleast several hundred years old and is referenced by Nashe and Shakespeare.
jXOQ TIL that a third of japan’s adults are virgins
948m TIL that all Perique tobacco, a pipe tobacco used in American Spirit Black cigarettes, is farmed on less than 16 acres of land in Louisiana, mostly by one man.
NXpoe Today I learned, Friday the 13th is a reference to the massacre of the Knights Templar in 1307