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TIL that "lactose-free milk" is just milk with an added enzyme that helps lactose-intolerant people digest it.

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mgMR TIL if you put some cut up garlic in between your toes (or in your lady parts to treat an yeast infection), you can taste it after a little while. Garlic and onion can be sucked up by your skin and put in your blood, when the blood takes them to your lungs, you taste them when you breathe out.
vP517 TIL that crustless bread was used as an eraser during the Japanese Meiji era (1868–1912). Since there was no restriction, it was often used to partially satiate hunger.
LKVv TIL that when the US Army planned the Gettysburg 50th Anniversary Veterans’ Reunion, they brought 50 coffins. They estimated some vets were so old that they would die at the event; they only had to use 9 of them.
5YYXD TIL of the Davy Crockett - a cold war recoilless infantry mini-nuke.
E1yJd TIL that there's a hand gestures in Italian that means "scared" and it's where you pinch all your fingers together and open them a bit and it's supposed to represent your butt contracting when you get scared.