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TIL The crunch sound of food is made by mini sonic booms; breaking at 300 meters per second or faster.

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QNWEe TIL Studies have found that the amount of plastics that humans inhale or ingest results in a credit cards’ equivalent of microplastics in the bloodstream.
16wEW TIL that the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was actually asbestos fibre
XEd1Q TIL that Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was smoking so much pot that he installed a fireman's pole in his home so he can get to his studio faster so he doesn't forget ideas for songs/lyrics he's creating.
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.
WVeY TIL there is a neurological disorder where an individual holds the delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.