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TIL bread clips are color coded for the day of the week is was baked

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xVnvb TIL that in 1291, two brothers from Genoa sailed into the Atlantic in search of a sea route to India. They made it to Morocco but were never seen again.
p8DEG Today I learned that "Mundial Ronaldinho Soccer 64" is actually a bootleg version of "International Superstar Soccer 64" and since I'm so used to the Ronaldinho intro the actual one seems cursed (iconic part starts at 1:06)
XXw8 TIL that Carillo Fuentes, a Mexican drug lord, tried to get plastic surgery to avoid capture, but died during the operation. The bodies of his surgeons were found mutilated and encased in concrete four months later.
nn9B TIL when signing a bill the President signs with different pens and those pens are the gift to the people that contributed most to the bill.
JW6v TIL in the 1970’s, General Motors designed the Chevy Vega specifically so it could be shipped pointed downwards. The fluid reservoirs were designed so fluid did not leak when the cars were tipped on end. This allowed them to ship 30 automobiles on a single rail car.