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TIL white wine can help improve the taste of burnt food

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d8Zx8 TIL During his childhood, Willie Nelson grew interested in martial arts. He ordered self-defense manuals on jujitsu and judo that he saw advertised in Batman and Superman comics. Nelson started to formally practice kung fu after he moved to Nashville, in the 1960s.
awedM TIL narwhals and beluga whales can mate to produce a hybrid called the Narluga
yZRl TIL a man received an emergency satellite locator beacon as a present, didn’t read the instructions and ended up triggering 9 false alarm Search and Rescue deployments over the course of 12 weeks.
mxxlO TIL that Twinkies were initially filled with banana cream before WWII. When bananas were rationed due to a food shortage, the company switched to the cream filling, which turned out to be far more popular. Also, despite misconceptions, a Twinkie’s shelf life is only 25 days.
yVVRa TIL that there is strong evidence the US sent residents back to the bikini atol post testing of nuclear weapons as it "affords the opportunity for a most valuable ecological radiation study on human beings ..." the relocation resulted in many premature deaths and disabilities in newborns.