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TIL Plastic dishes can’t absorb enough heat to evaporate water, which is why the dishwasher dry cycle doesn’t work on them

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P1VeO TIL Pagash is a Slavic Lenten food found in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania. It is made from mashed potatoes, dough, and cheese. It is sometimes referred as as "Polish pizza" or "Slavic pizza".
a9QM TIL Sadhus, Indian holy men, renunciate this world to the point that they attend their own funeral and even the Indian government recognizes them as legally dead.
41Wa TIL according to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the Emperor Huang Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a phoenix bird.
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.