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TIL “supper” and “dinner” are not interchangeable, but determine the size of the meal. Dinner is the largest, most formal meal

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G0w5 TIL that wasabi is sometimes referred to as “Japanese horseradish”. In Japan, horseradish is referred to as “western wasabi”.
Z84JR TIL of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
mxyQp TIL There's no evidence that Neanderthal females bred with Sapien males, perchance because: it led to mutations that caused the offspring's extinction; hybrid offspring of Neanderthal mothers became extinct with them; or female Neanderthals and male Sapiens did not produce fertile offspring
O7g6 TIL that experiences you have throughout your life, leave chemical markers on your DNA; essentially ingraining superficial experiences into your descendants.
awbvy TIL that the sun will transform into a red giant in a few billion years and expand to 256 times it's size. Mercury, Venus and Earth will get engulfed and the habitable zone will be pushed well into the Kuiper Belt. A host of new moons are expected to become suitable for the existence of life.