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TIL The juice of red cabbage can be used as a homemade pH indicator

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a818J TIL Ireland used to have tobacco farms
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BrwDk TIL that legendary video game composer Nobuo Uematsu is completely self-taught, and thought making video game music would be a fun side job.
xVn5b TIL Patti Lyle Collins who worked at Dead Letter Office (Mail Recovery Center) in the 19th century could decipher miswritten addresses and names; and she even deciphered waterlogged letters