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

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R7aMw Today i learned Bela Lugosi was buried in one of his "Dracula" costumes at the request of wife and son.
xvN0 TIL that after a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, the media, following guidelines from CDC, carefully and voluntarily avoided sensationalizing the deaths and to a large extent stopped reporting on them
Wk1dL TIL the reason coffee and tea were originally served on saucers was so you could pour the hot drink into the saucer, thus cooling it faster, and drink from it. This practice was used as a metaphor by G. Washington to T. Jefferson for why the US has a Senate.
8eQNa TIL that there is a fudge factory in Missouri that goes by the name of Uranus. You can buy fudge in Uranus.
MeQR0 TIL The last words of the assassin that murdered Leon Trotsky with an ice pick were "I hear it always. I hear the scream. I know he’s waiting for me on the other side."