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TIL reading for 6 minutes a day reduces stress by 68%.

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VMBoB TIL that the orange-bellied parrot is close to extinction and conversion attempts are made difficult due to the bird having poor survival instincts
690Yw TIL that KFC’s handwritten recipe is stored in a safe within a vault at KFC’s Louisville headquarters. To maintain confidentiality, KFC employs two separate suppliers: one blends part of the recipe, and the other completes it, ensuring no single entity has access to the entire formulation. 
bPPa TIL that in MAY 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. After 15 years, it was discovered that the critical move made by Deep Blue was due to a bug in its software.
b9pO4 TIL Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing macaroni and cheese to America, after encountering the pasta on a trip to Paris
0djp TIL the world’s oldest backpacker has been travelling around the world for the last 30 years