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7rnQL TIL Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap. People who report that "cilantro tastes bad" have a variation of olfactory-receptor genes that allows them to detect aldehydes—a compound found in cilantro that is also a by-product of soap and part of the chemical makeup of fluids sprayed by some bugs.
mxkQE TIL CapriSun is named after the Italian island Capri, where the sun shines almost whole year.
epnvg TIL in Louisville, Ky., there is a growing population of freshwater jellyfish. The jellies are native to China and travel around the world, ending up in random and unpredictable locations
4M1R TIL Spain has invited Jews descended from those expelled after the Inquisition to return, settle, and become citizens.
Bg6Ay TIL that the guitarist for the band Extreme wrote thier second highest charting single 'Hole Hearted' while he was taking a dump