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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II's reign spanned 179 Prime Ministers

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KYd6G TIL that breast milk is as effective as ophthalmic solutions (eye drops) in infants with eye discharge
xVew0 TIL Blueberries and raspberries have the same pigment compounds, anthocyanins. Blueberries are blue because they are less acidic. If you add an acid like vinegar to crushed blueberries, they will turn red. Adding a base like baking soda will return them to blue.
J1jdQ TIL that caffeine doesn’t actually give you more energy. It only suppresses the body’s ability to detect its own energy levels temporarily.
Br1XL TIL the aliens moving faster as you kill them in Space Invaders was a byproduct of the processor freeing up more memory as they could be rendered more quickly the fewer there were on screen, it was left in to provide more challenge
BNer TIL recent US court cases have found that IP addresses alone are not sufficient to ID someone