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TIL that Thomas Jefferson brought Macaroni & Cheese to America

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kGME TIL that Singapore Air flight 21, the longest scheduled flight, had special lockers on board to store the corpses of anyone who died on board, due to the lack of unscheduled stopping locations
YpXOv TIL of Fedspeak, described as a 'turgid dialect of English' used by US government officials, notably Alan Greenspan, in order to avoid difficult questions on reports and statements
xVaX7 TIL of an obese Scottish man who went 382 days without food. He survived on coffee, tea and sparkling water along with potassium and sodium supplements. He went from 456 pounds to 180 pounds. All of this was documented and published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal.
7bEP TIL the game Twister was nearly killed in its crib when the Sears catalog rejected it for being too sexy. But just as the makers were about to give up, the game was saved by Johnny Carson, who played Twister with blonde bombshell Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show, and sales soared into the millions.
J1QL8 TIL there’s a town in rural Queensland, Australia, called Dululu.. and for extra points, it is located within the Shire of Banana. Perth, it’s been fun, but it’s time for me to go home🖖