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TIL wilhelm screen has been used in many Disney movies as an in-joke including toy story

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oBXZW TIL that Swiss cheese forgery is a real problem and to combat it, there's a freezer in Bern, Switzerland where government scientists keep 10,000 strains of milk bacteria that can be used to identify counterfeit cheese
lwQ7 TIL the phrase “Let them eat cake” has no record of being said by Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. It was used in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiography, which was written when Antoinette was 9 years old.
dDYE7 TIL an embryo conceived in 1992 was thawed and resulted in the successful birth of twins 30 years later
0MBy TIL a women in Japan was arrested and faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. Her crime, sending 3D printer data of her scanned vagina to 30 fans who had helped her crowdfund her “pussy boat”.
WQLB TIL that when 6-year old Adam Walsh (the son of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh) was murdered in 1981, the police investigation was so inept that they lost the bloodstained carpet from the suspect’s Cadillac, the machete used to decapitate Walsh, and eventually, the car itself.