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TIL human beings invented bread before they invented farming

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wZkW TIL There are only 22 countries in the world that England hasn’t invaded
OGV4X TIL that snooker was invented by a British army officer named Neville Chamberlain. He was a distant cousin of Neville Chamberlain, who would become famous for being Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
VMPPp TIL - On a clear night humans can see the light from a candle burning 1.6 miles away
kOd14 TIL when being eaten or harmed, grass will release a chemical distress signal. This attracts parasitic wasps to lay eggs in the insect eating the grass. This chemical is actually what makes up the 'freshly cut grass smell' (Updated post, I messed up the last one)
b9mE4 TIL that Charles Taylor, a brutal Liberian warlord currently in prison for war crimes won the 1997 Liberian election with the slogan: "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him."