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TIL about The Cube Rule of Food Identification through cuberule.com in which they explain what constitutes a sandwich (~3-5 minute read)

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NYXJ TIL the X Prize Foundation cancelled their $10 million genetic sequencing X Prize when the technology in the industry was beginning to approach the cost and accuracy thresholds for awarding the prize.
4Xm9b TIL about Cremora Tart, a South African no bake dessert made with powdered non-dairy coffee creamer.
Zp9Da TIL that Pablo Neruda (the Nobel winning poet laureate) who died 12 days after Pinochet's successful coup in 1973. This week, a new toxicological report confirmed his poisoning, finding traces of Clostridium Botulinum, a neurotoxin that paralyzes the muscles and the nervous system leading to death.
9YWrX TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
OGZpe TIL that a cat’s intelligence is comparable to a 2 year old human