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

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gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"
4yD6 TIL in 1919 after becoming an officially secular country, Uruguay renamed the holidays of Christmas Day to “Family Day”, Holy Easter Week to “Tourism Week”, and Epiphany to “Children’s Day”
xVGND TIL names for generic drugs has a prefix and suffix. The suffix tell you how the drug works. The prefix can me made up but has to follow a strict rule including not using the letters Y, H, K, J, and W because certain languages that use the Roman alphabet don't have these letters.
QJLn9 TIL that there is a movement in journalism to move away from “if it bleeds it leads”. In the past, crises and conflicts were reported as-is, but journalists in this movement are also reporting on options, solutions, and ways in which things could and are getting better.
4mw5 TIL: Coconut crabs are so adapt and hearty to living on the land that they can live up to 60 years and will drown if submerged in water for too long. They also can climb trees and will do so for coconuts which they eat.