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

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0wOa1 TIL about Yolanda Saldivar, a nurse who quit her job to become Tejana music star Selena's fan club president in San Antonio, then proceeded to embezzle thousands from her. She shot the singer dead in 1995 after being confronted for her actions.
vPbmr TIL Gaboon Vipers don't slither like most snakes. They walk using their ribs. The process is called rectilinear locomotion.
rRKR0 TIL that 99% of Jewish children in Poland died in the Holocaust. Only 5,000 were left out of a pre-war population of 1 million.
9YG1r TIL Voyager 1 and 2 both travel at 35,000mph, and are about 900,000 miles further away from Earth each day. They are now more than 10 billion miles away since launch in 1977.
VMoGD TIL that in the year 1909, the British Intelligence Agency MI6 was formed but it was kept such a secret that it wasn't formally acknowledged until the year 1994.