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TIL Fabric softeners work by coating the fibres of your clothes in a layer of fat.

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rNXk0 TIL that the Republic of Venice ruled colonies throughout the Eastern Mediterranean from the end of the first millennium to 1797, at times including Crete, Cyprus and numerous Greek islands.
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