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TIL that babies and toddlers can not only taste with their tongues, but also their lips, cheeks and hard palate.

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VMkyG TIL according to research, there are four types of drunks: the Hemmingway, whose personality doesn't change a bit, the Mary Poppins, those who gets sweeter and happier, the Nutty Professor, who becomes more social, and the Mr. Hyde, who becomes more hostile and less responsible around booze.
OGZjY TIL that the Iran Mall in Tehran is the largest shopping mall in the world, with 1.95 million square meters/21 million square feet (four times the size of Vatican City) in gross leasable space
R70ga TIL Jeff Baxter, the guitarist for the Doobie Brothers, is now an expert on military use of rockets for missile defense and is an advisor at NASA.
16Dg8 TIL that the Amazon is slowly pirating part of the Orinoco
R77Zj Earlier this year, a NASA-led team conducted a series of carefully choreographed flights over California in order to sniff out how aircraft emissions differ when using petroleum fuels or biofuels. Early results from the Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS II) experiment confirm that blended biofuel is the cleaner-burning fuel.