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TIL Teflon’s first use was in the Manhattan project.

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rNAAM TIL the “L” in salmon is silent
VMGMZ TIL that Ulysses S. Grant created the Department of Justice, ratified the Fifteenth Amendment and asked for Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, enabling him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
P1glw TIL that Marvin the Martian only made five appearances in the original run of Looney Tunes cartoons.
LQEnv TIL there’s a percentage of a percentage of the population that will fall asleep when things get too emotional, regardless of where they are or what they’re doing. It’s called Type 1 Narcolepsy.
X0AkR TIL of the Authors XI, a cricket club made up of British writers. Members included J.M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, E.W. Horning, A.A. Milne, and P.G. Wodehouse.