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TIL Woodworkers or machinists who align all their screw heads call it "clocking"

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78nkx TIL Red Wave was the first Soviet rock album released in the West. The album was released in 1986 and was made up of songs from underground rock groups and had to be smuggled out of the country to the record producer.
ZpGbv TIL that Jerry Springer died over a year ago! .... Seriously. Wtf?!
b9W6p TIL That the mushroom Mario eats is called a Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria). It contains a psychoactive property where the individual experiences micropsia (a condition where objects appear smaller than they actually are, making you feel larger as a consequence).
wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
gMAny TIL Butter chicken was developed in the 1950s by three Punjabi restaurateurs who made it "by chance" by mixing the leftover chicken in a tomato gravy, rich in butter and cream. The dish is India's most popular curry, not only domestically but also globally