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TIL Northern Paper Company offered the first splinter-free toilet paper in the early 1930s.

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GYVog TiL The average millennial credit score is 659
neN9G TIL: The Golden ratio was discovered when Phidias heard the different sounds a blacksmiths hammer was making when different weights were used, he went on to discover one of the most important visual concepts in history without using his eyes.
JYMdj TIL that knowing something "By Heart" actually means to have a complete understanding of something before you commit it to memory, not that you have something completely memorized.
OJ1R TIL that when astronaut Ron McNair was 9 he attempted to check out books from a segregated library the librarian called the cops and his mother. The police however supported his right to read.
kOK01 TIL a random British captain was chosen by George Washington to be executed in response to a hanging by loyalists which itself was in retaliation for another death. The allied French got involved after the French mother of the captain petitioned and he was released