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TIL The last king of Rome was named Superbus

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BdEx TIL cake mix used to contain powdered egg, and only needed water; Betty Crocker made the decision to take it out and sales skyrocketed. Due to housewives feeling that the simple step of adding a real egg somehow made the cake more homemade/authentic, and gave them a sense of contribution.
eMdD TIL American Pharoah is a fifth generation Decendant of Secretariat
ADEal TIL in The silver fox domestication experiment, the tamest foxes were selected to be bred, generation after generation, to see what happened: they became very tame very fast, developed floppy ears and curly tails, and some got mottled coats, just like other domesticated animals.
j94j TIL instead of diapers, Chinese kids wear special pants that allow them to defecate anywhere and everywhere…
xVnRk TIL: that there is no data to show that “blue light” actually harms your eyes and that those blue light glasses are all scams.