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TIL17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese
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TIL: The “chestbuster” scene in Alien was inspired by the feeling/pain that it’s writer, Dan O'Bannon, experienced when battling Crohn’s Disease.
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TIL although it is known that George Washington bought teeth from enslaved people, there is evidence that the intended recipient was a dentist named Jean Pierre Le Mayeur who was performing tooth transplants in the area at the time
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TIL that in 1906, The Daily Mail hired novelist William Le Queux to write a story of the most likely path for a hypothetical German invasion of England. When that path went mostly through areas with low 'Daily Mail' readership, they ordered it rewritten to more directly impact their existing readers
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TIL A species of Salamander called the Tiger Salamander have a unique way of controlling the population within their little society. If they sense their population has overgrown, they develop offspring with specially adapted heads and larger bodies to eat the larvae of their own species.
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TIL Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop