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TIL that bread products (Such as bagels and, well, bread) use a chemical called L-cysteine, is a chemical that comes from hairs in such animals as Humans, Duck feathers, and Hog hairs.

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wLA57 TIL that during cold war, CIA conducted a $350 million cost secret project in 1974 called Project Azorian to recover a soviet submarine K-129 sunken in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean. It recovered only 1/3rd of the submarine, but the research lead to great advances in deep ocean drilling and mining.
NXrQE TIL There is mention of existence of multiverse and multidimension in Bhagvad Gita.
vkA8 TIL that, in the late 1940’s, the British designed a double deck airliner the size of a 767. It carried only 100 passengers, each allotted room equivalent to the interior of a small car.
Z9o4 TIL Rage Against The Machine’s self titled debut album was recorded with the highest standards and is used by audiophile publications to test hi-fi equipment.
x6yBk TIL Paper marbling is the Eastern art of floating colours on aqueous solutions and was employed in 1695 by the Bank of England to make banknotes to prevent their counterfeiting. They were forged mere weeks later by infamous counterfeit coiner William Chaloner.