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TiL the average millennial credit score is only 665.

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loEmK TIL petit Four (small french pastries) got their name from how they are baked. Traditional brick ovens took a long time to cool down, so to not waste residual heat after baking bread, bakers made smaller cakes at this lower temperature. It was called baking à petit four - literally "at small oven."
79DX TIL that IKEA has previously hired private investigators to track down personal information for individuals who gave them poor reviews
nWj89 TIL it's impossible for a human to drown in quicksand because the human body is less dense than sand. The deepest a person can sink is to their waist
4AmJ TIL that Olivia Hussey who played Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet” wasn’t allowed to go to the premiere of the film because she was under the age of 18 and there was a nude scene - even though she was the one who was nude.
1aJlr TIL of the White Rose which was a non-violent Nazi resistance group made of college students and a professor. It started by releasing pamphlets against the Nazi Party and ended with the execution of 6 students and the professor.