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TIL MIT researches have developed the world’s toughest tongue twister: Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.

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e0QK5 TIL that in 1940, nearly 19 million people lived in the USA colonies, the great bulk of them in the Philippines. That meant slightly more than one in eight of the people in the USA lived outside of the states. For perspective, only about one in 12 of the people in the USA was African American
RlBQ TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was forced to resign for publicly promoting sex education about masturbation as a means to reduce teen pregnancy
awJOA TIL During the notorious filming for 1963's "Cleopatra"20th Century Fox regularly had chilli from the Beverly Hills restaurant Chasen's air-freighted to Rome to keep star Elizabeth Taylor happy. The film cost eventually almost bust Fox
X07GX TIL that not everyone with amyloid in their brain have Alzheimer’s disease, and that only those with abnormal immune activation do.
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