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TIL when they were introduced in 1903, Triscuit crackers were advertised as “Baked by Electricity”

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P5nw TIL: That a German woman was executed during WW2 for telling a joke about Hitler
E16BW TIL that during the siege of Leningrad, Hitler had no intentions of actually invading the city. He did not want to capture and feed the 3 million inhabitants and ordered an unending siege, disregarding possible surrender, waiting for the city to starve to death. Close to a million civilians starved.
4XPnR TIL that the founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur, founded his massive empire after giving up on his original dreams: the reconquest of his tiny Ferghana homeland from Uzbek invaders. Saddened by a third defeat, Babur went to India to flee the Uzbeks, founding his empire in the process.
nWoaP TIL During early development the gonads of the [human] fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
rRXXo TIL that people with synesthesia can see sounds, taste words, for them hearing a person talk can trigger seeing colors, even letters can cause that effect.