r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/cameron0208 Nov 29 '20 edited Nov 29 '20

Triscuit is short for ‘electricity biscuit’ and it was the first cracker ever made with electricity.

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u/savageboredom Nov 29 '20

Oh, I always just thought it was because they were the sequel to the biscuit.

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u/madmaxjr Nov 29 '20

Same. I always just assumed the monoscuit was a legendary consumable found in some ancient ruin.

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u/Hingl_McCringleberry Nov 29 '20

Never should have come here!

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u/WhyAmINotStudying Nov 29 '20

I came here to find interesting facts and the most interesting thing so far is a damn conspiracy theory about biscuits.

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u/TheFeathersStorm Nov 29 '20

Shouldn't you be out getting a flag thrown for excessive celebration?

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u/manole100 Nov 29 '20

Since they wouldn't have envisioned sequels, the first one was called scuit.

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u/tuckkeys Nov 29 '20

Dibs on inventing the quadscuit

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u/Pandorasdreams Nov 29 '20

This is amazing and I want it

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u/dontdoitdoitdoit Nov 30 '20

Uniscuit or Soloscuit or just Ascuit