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TIL sliced bread was first advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped,”

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75Vr TIL Vernors is actually the oldest soda still being sold. It predates Dr. Pepper by 19 years.
6ErP8 TIL Baby bunnies are called kittens, the female rabbit is a doe and the male is a buck
yRml TIL that in 1891, hundreds of Italian-Americans were arrested due to their ethnicity, 11 were lynched, and Teddy Roosevelt said this was a good thing
XEQB6 TIL the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, breaking both gender and racial barriers, with white bandmates wearing blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing.
R7M7a TIL if you plant an apple seed, it will grow a tree but that tree will most likely not produce an apple of the same type that the seed came from. This is due to a horticultural phenomenon called 'unfixed hybrids', and most trees are grafted rather than grown true from seed.