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TIL sliced bread was originally advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”

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KYbAR TIL that the Oneida cutlery company is descended from a free love commune founded in 1858. Despite not using birth control, the community of 200 had only 12 unplanned births in 20 years.
loZvG TIL That 50% of all material used in reactors in the United States to generate electricity comes from recycled nuclear warheads. 45% of that total are Soviet warheads.
yQXMp TIL that scientists discovered a cannibalistic ant colony composed entirely of worker ants in a abandoned Soviet Bunker in Poland. They had fallen down ventilation pipes leading into the bunker and reverted to cannibalism to survive. The scientists built a bridge that allowed most of them to escape.
KOxK4 TIL That koalas refuse to eat anything but Eucalyptus, a mildly toxic plant that gives them almost no energy, which is why they sleep so much. Also, if you stripped the tree and put it on a plate, the koala would stare at it and starve because it can't recognize it as food.
gMQxX TIL of Chevalier d'Éon - a French spy, dragoon and ambassador who had lived life both as man and woman. Their autopsy indicated they were intersex, and presented masculine in their early life for sake of inheritance.