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TIL: That your car speedometer could show an error of almost ten km/h

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16a5D TIL about a Chinese cooking method called 'Velveting', which is a cornstarch and egg mixture that you soak meats in for a few hours prior to cooking. This provides more thermal mass which cooks the meat slower and creates a moisture barrier that seals in the juices for exceptionally tender meat.
WJAd TIL that Taco Bell once tried to expand into Mexico by portraying their menu as American food. They even included french fries on the menu. It didn’t work, and they closed down in less than three years.
6EnYX TIL that a Chinese billionaire sparked social backlash by purchasing a rare 500 year old tea cup for 38 million dollars, and then drinking tea out of it. To appease people angered by his using it, Liu Yiqian said “I’m not going to use it ever day.”
8a1Qa TIL that the official authority for lighthouses in England is formally named "The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent".
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.