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TIL children prefer higher levels of sourness in foods when compared with adults, and that such preferences are positively related to their willingness to try new foods and experience with dietary diversity

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xpV1 TIL Vicodin is so named because it is 6x (VI) stronger than codeine.
a8v0A TIL Rockwall, Texas is named for a wall they unearthed in 1851 but keep it buried because some people think the ~20 square-mile rectangle dike appears artificial.
Or5X TIL Saddam Hussein’s son owned an actual iron maiden and used it against people he didn’t like.
wLd56 TIL that the motto, "In God We Trust," is not the original motto of the United States. During the Cold War, it was changed from "E Pluribus Unum" ("from many, one") in an effort to differentiate the United States from atheistic communism.
QJwma TIL that Danish conceptual artist Kristian Hornsleth paid 340 people in a village in Uganda to change their first names to Hornsleth. He paid them by giving each one of them either a goat or a pig