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ADR6x TIL that the British Royal Society of Chemistry recommends adding tea to milk, and not the other way around, as adding milk to tea results in "significant denaturation" of the milk, adversely affecting flavor.
N7xD8 TIL in 1975, Jack Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote an entire paper on low–temperature physics and during proofreading realized that he had used “we” instead of “I” everywhere. Too lazy to change anything, he simply listed his Siamese cat Chester as his coauthor.