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TIL Soda stored in plastic bottles loses 1.5% to 2% of its carbonation per week due to permeation of carbon dioxide through polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

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neR09 TIL famed historical detective novelist Anne Perry helped murder her best friend's mother at the age of 15. The story became the basis of the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, directed by Peter Jackson and starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in their feature film debuts.
p86be TIL A Harvard University study of more than 120,000 people found that potato chips were to blame for the gain of an average of 1.69 pounds per person over four years.
Z8lGQ TIL Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, produced over 179 adult-humored commercials for Wilkins Coffee from 1957-1961. The commercials followed a formula of one muppet creatively harming the other.
LQ5gv TIL that most of the trains in the North Korean capital Pyongyang are actually reused trains from the Berlin metro.
POdZ TIL there was a plan in the 1930’s to totally reconfigure the interior of Africa by creating a series of huge inland seas.