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TIL that a company in Thailand makes dinnerware out of wheat.

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BgZ6K TIL Star Trek and Mission Impossible and other hit shows were produced by Lucile Ball and her husbands production company.
9Rap TIL that in 1963-6 a 120ft supergun fired over 200 projectiles weighing as much 180kg each as far as 180km into space from the Caribbean island of Barbados, setting an altitude record that has still not been broken - and the abandoned supergun is still in place on the island.
4XVea TIL That the United States accidentally destroyed Britain's first satellite after detonating a nuclear bomb in orbit.
16GvV TIL that there was a real "Lord of the Flies" when six boys were shipwrecked on a island for 15 months
69vE8 TIL That Americans of Irish decent donated about three times more money towards the Irish war of independence than the people of Ireland raised through the "National Loan" program set up by the new national government to fund the rebellion.