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TIL the scientific name for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

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lonPN TIL a 2011 study showed that a group of 4 year olds had a temporary lapse in cognitive function after watching 9 minutes of SpongeBob
mxreY TIL in 2012 three researchers proved that many classic Nintendo games are NP-hard by developing a framework for reducing the 3SAT problem to any platform game. This means the question "given a finite level of a game, can the player move from start to finish?" is not computable in polynomial time.
9Yw6Q TIL that New York City has added over 300,000 new residents since 2010, yet only 50,000 housing units have been approved
81BK TIL “Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.”
dD06j TIL Tracing the Fascinating History of Condoms as Essential Tools for Birth Control and Disease Prevention, from Ancient Innovations to Modern Breakthroughs