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TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming

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W7oGL TIL That the oyster beds in Chesapeake Bay were once so large, they posed a navigational hazard to ships.
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.
m1j7Y TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
VMorQ TIL there is a condition called Aphantasia, where a person is unable to conjure up visual images in their imagination. When they close their eyes and think of an object, there is no visual imagery of the object - instead they imagine concepts that would describe the object.
e4R5 TIL Boeing didn’t pay any taxes between 2008-2010 despite making $9.8b in profits, instead receiving tax rebates of $178m, laying off 14,862 workers, and increasing executive pay by 31%.