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TIL kraft paper is not "craft paper" and gets its name from the kraft process used to make it, unrelated to its use for arts and crafts

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p8EgG TIL Iceland was uninhabited until c. 870AD
0wM8R TIL male platypus venom contains a hormone that promotes insulin release, called GLP-1; it's found in humans but degrades quickly. Platypuses make a long-lasting form of it, paving the way to new diabetes treatment; the platypus GLP-1 can be made in the lab so no platypuses will be needed for it.
DDDp TIL some men are getting “facial hair implants” because they can’t grow full beards. Plastic surgeons say more men have been getting the surgery in recent years as beards have become trendier.
X0rlr TIL That Abraham Lincoln once pranked his mom by holding a couple negihborhood kids upside down and having them walk across the ceiling leaving muddy footprints.
6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.