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TIL that most people like the color orange less and less as they grow older

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m1v0x TIL that desert truffles, cousins of the better known European varieties, are associated with lightning. This delicacy grows under the sands of the Middle East and North Africa and frequently appear after thunderstorms which form nitrogen compounds beneficial to the fungus.
dlKd TIL Henry Winkler (‘The Fonz’) has dyslexia, has written an 18-book children’s series whose main character is dyslexic, and he plays the kid’s music teacher in a BBC TV adaptation. The teacher is based on the one person who provided him moral support in his own schooling.
0kyL [TIL] Current incumbent U.S. House of Representatives member, Alcee Hastings, formerly served as a U.S. District Judge and was successfully impeached on 17 counts of corruption and removed from office.
GYKA1 TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.
xl90 TIL that in 1983, amidst the cold war, the world was a ‘Hairsbreadth from Utter Destruction’, but nuclear apocalypse was prevented by a single Russian Colonel