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TIL the toast is called the toast because ancient Romans put scorched bread (Latin "tostus") into their wine to help with the excessive acidity.

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ZpbKp TIL that a man who survived an avalanche later found that Sudoku was the only thing that would trigger his epileptic seizures, because oxygen loss had damaged the part of his brain used for visual-spatial thinking.
9YR4r TIL that the seven-colour rainbow flag is used by many cultures and movements - the native people of the Andes, the city of Cusco (Peru), the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (a Russian region bordering China), the shrine of Indian guru Meher Baba, and the international peace movement
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OGjeR TIL about the functions of humans' foreskins
Z8BEa TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci invented ball bearings - a friction-reducing part without which no modern machinery would be possible