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TIL of "Oleogustus", the unique taste of fat. It is claimed to be be the sixth taste, distinct from sweet/salty/sour/bitter/umami

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jYGN TIL that Bohemian Grove is a 137 year old secret camp, that Nixon called “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine”. The camp is private and only open to the rich and powerful men of the world.
0wb15 TIL That Tanis - The "Lost City" was made famous by the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a real city and located in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period.
vBgL TIL In 2003 a pizza delivery man seeming picked at random walked into a bank and calmly committed a robbery. when he tried to leave the police stopped him outside, the man said his neck bomb was on a timer and had to get somewhere to get that key that would unlock it. He didn’t make it
grk4 TIL completely pure water freezes not at 0C but at -48C (water which freezes at 0C is contaminated with bacteria and other particles)
a6VL TIL the number 42 was the random seed chosen to generate the universe in EVE Online