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TIL that cereal company General Mills had an Aeronautical Research Division that produced spy balloons for the American military and the CIA

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E1opp TIL that Sodium Citrate is used to make cheese really melty cheese by preventing the fats from separating. You can buy it and add it to any cheese. The best part is the chemical formula is Na(3)C(6)H(5)O(7).
1a1jd TIL about a traditional dish in Rochester made up of a disorganized combination of food known as the "Garbage Plate"
xwGg TIL that until 1986, doctors did not think that babies could feel pain, and they performed open heart surgeries on infants without anesthesia.
WkXVL TIL that to avoid being conscripted by the Roman Army, some men would cut off their thumbs so that they couldn’t wield a sword. By the end of the fourth century, conscription avoidance was so widespread that Emperor Theodosius passed a law that forced the thumb-less to serve.
bPBZ TIL of Cincinnatus, a man who was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and who twice gave it up.