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TIL Ice cream originated in Ancient China

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7rlMb TIL - the "Existential Slap" is the experience a dying person has when they know, at a 'gut level' death is close.
gWkW TIL computers can’t actually generate random numbers.
VMbMm TIL when Jonas Salk, who developed the first protective agent for polio, was asked about who has the patent, he responded by saying "Well the people, I would say, there is no patent" and then laughs saying "could you patent the sun?"
Mkv8 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.
eyB4 TIL that over 4000 human diseases are caused by single gene defects.