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TIL: The "Chinese" take-out box originated from a need for an inexpensive, watertight package that can safely carry oysters home.

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AOA7 TIL NASA’s Eagleworks lab is currently running a real warp drive experiment for proof of concept. The location of the facility is the same one that was built for the Apollo moon program
76yb TIL: The “Pinky Promise” originally indicated that the person who breaks the promise must cut off their pinky finger.