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TIL that if you ever mistakenly load a dishwasher with dish soap instead of dishwasher detergent, that you remedy the situation with a quarter cup of vegetable oil

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b9O8E TIL in 1946 the Soviet Union built a secret city called City 40 to house workers of a nearby nuclear plant and their families. For decades the fenced city and its 100k inhabitants were officially non existent. Today the city is called Ozersk and it's been exposed to 5x the radiation of Chernobyl.
Wk45A TIL that capsaicin, the substance that makes peppers spicy, is found primarily in the white membrane in the pepper; the seeds do not contain any capsaicin
QBbp TIL hippos secrete their own sunscreen
PYJaV TIL that in addition to being the second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo is also the world's second largest French-speaking country with its capital, Kinshasa, being the largest French-speaking city.
DwDY TIL old people smell is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin