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TIL: The foam hand prototype was created by a high school student in 1971 for a basketball tournament

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GAykj TIL The sound of Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom” was inspired by Ric Ocasek’s band’s 1978 hit “Just What I Needed.” In the music video, Stacy’s mom’s car has “I heart Ric” on her license plate.
7rnQL TIL Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap. People who report that "cilantro tastes bad" have a variation of olfactory-receptor genes that allows them to detect aldehydes—a compound found in cilantro that is also a by-product of soap and part of the chemical makeup of fluids sprayed by some bugs.
DJ5Y TIL Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
ZNxY TIL the UN put the cost of solving World Hunger at $30 billion a year. That’s less than $100 a year or around $7 a month per person in the United States.
LQmRr TIL that cordless, battery-operated power tools were originally created by Black & Decker for NASA so astronauts could perform maintenance on spacecraft, and would become available to the public in 1978