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TIL: You cannot hum while holding your nose. There, just made you try!

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1JVW TIL that a struggling young Harper Lee once received one year’s wages as a gift from a friend with the note: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She used her time off to write “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
XEmED TIL Italian courts ruled that restaurants have to tell customers if they serve frozen food or it’s considered fraud.
PyVO Til once a star creates Nickle 56 through fusion it has a mere minutes of life left. This is because Ni 56 decays to Fe 56, which has one of the highest bonding energies of all isotopes and is the last exothermic reaction in nuclear fusion.
vPYwR TIL that cappuccino got its name from Italian friars' robes. The color of the espresso mixed with frothed milk was similar to their color.
KZG4 TIL that Winston Churchill had a plan called “Operation Unthinkable” to invade the Soviet Union in a surprise attack immediately after the end of WWII. His plan was finally shot down when it was learned that the Soviet troops remaining outnumbered allied troops 3:1.