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TIL that Pop Rocks candy is made by exposing melted candy syrup to ~600psi of CO2, then allowing it to cool, thereby trapping highly pressurized micro-bubbles of gas in the candy.

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oJY TIL that in the original play and novel fairies in Neverland are extremely short lived and that, by the time of the epilogue set a year later, when Wendy asks Peter Pan about Tinker Bell he had completely forgotten she ever even existed.
BrNNk TIL that the current Emperor of Japan has published scientific papers in Taxonomy and has a goby species named after him
d8Q0r TIL sugar has at least 56 different names.
4XYya TIL that in 1974, Fleetwood Mac's manager Clifford Davis assembled an entirely seperate group of musicians to take the mantle and name of the band after the original members declined to go on tour. The new band would go on tour, but audience members noticed the imposters, and refunds were requested.
LQ5lQ TIL Elvis Presley had an identical twin brother. Jesse Garon Presley was born 35 minutes before his brother Elvis, stillborn.