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TIL all US Government issued pens are made by a company that only employs the blind (Skillcraft)

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bOdN TIL in 1786 when Louis XVI had bodies removed from France’s Saints Innocents Cemetery into the Catacombs, many of the bodies had decomposed into fat. The fat was then collected and turned into candles and soap
xNRB TIL the Creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan, named the show “Breaking Bad” thinking everyone knew what it meant. Being from Virginia, it is a regional expression meaning “Raising Hell”.
O8x7 TIL phytoplankton account for half of the world’s supply of oxygen
loxRA TIL about Charlotte Woodward Pierce, who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention (in favor of women's rights) as a teenager and was its only attendant to live long enough to see women get the right to vote in 1920. She was 91 then and her failing health prevented her from voting that year.
KYJbG TIL of Operation Blackcock, an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War.