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TIL that the word cereal comes from the Roman goddess Ceres who was the goddess of the growth of food crops, including grains and cultivated fruits and vegetables.

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a9dJ TIL A survivor of Auschwitz is looking for his missing twin on Facebook.
9br6 TIL that the United States Government gave Indiana University one million dollars to study memes
KynE TIL NASA used 3D printing to make rocket engine injector, cutting manufacturing time from 1 year to 4 months and cuts costs by 70%.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.
vkXK TIL 63.2% of Americans consider their pets to be family members, 1% consider their pets to be property.