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TIL: Color-Coded Plastic Ties Tell You Day Your Bread Was Baked, blue for Monday, green for Tuesday, red for Thursday, white for Friday, and yellow for Saturday.

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0wLX1 TIL There is an Island in France where donkey wear Trousers.
l7MrA TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. Two British aviators, J. Alcock and A. Brown, flew from Canada to Ireland, completing the trip in just under sixteen hours. On the way, they lost radio contact and heating, and flew through fog and snow, freezing in the open plane.
5Yk4D TIL that before raised scaffolds were used for hangings, a condemned person’s relatives could pull on their legs in the hope of occasioning a quicker death.
d8Qn8 TIL that Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of Linux, first met his wife Tove while running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students in 1993. He instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date
5YjKP TIL that while productions of the ballet Swan Lake mostly use the original coreography, almost every version staged contains a different ending, ranging from very romantic to darkly tragic