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TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming

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ZMgp TIL a species of jellyfish, has developed a way to change itself from an adult back to the polyp stage (infant), and back and forth, which in effect allows it to live forever.
BraRy TIL in 2016, Capt Bertrand Piccard was the first person to fly around the world in a plane powered entirely by the sun; 25k miles w/o a drop of fuel. His great uncle, Jean Felix Piccard, was a high-altitude balloonist and inspired Gene Roddenberry to create the STNG character Capt Jean-Luc Picard.
5VXLp TIL about Camp Century, a subsurface base built below Greenland by the US in the 1950s that was powered by a mobile nuclear reactor. The base had 21 tunnels almost 2 miles in length and was designed to withstand a nuclear strike
jNPva TIL Jackie Kennedy once wrote an essay to Vogue for a competition, where the winner would win an editor position for six months in New York and six months in Paris. Out of more than 1,200 entries her essay won, but she quit on her first day.
XWgD TIL California has a bigger population than Canada.