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TIL about the doughnut dollies who were women who served doughnuts to American troops in mobile clubs during WWII. Thanks to Great British Baking Show for teaching me something today

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1N4V TIL the crack of the Apatosaurus dinosaur’s tail tip would have released 2,000 times more energy than comes off a bullwhip, and the sound would have been over 200 decibels, a cannonlike boom traveling across the Mesozoic landscape for miles. This ability is believed to be due to sexual selection.
d11Z TIL the CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006
BWje TIL Signal Reception Bars on your phone don’t indicate how good or bad your reception is
R7mQ TIL the first science-fiction work was written in the 2nd Century AD by a Greek named Lucian. It has aliens, inter-planetary warfare, and cloud-centaurs.
xEOw TIL that unlike many nations, Japanese banknotes feature portraits of artists, scientists and teachers