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TIL: Lime is the most universally liked scent

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7rv6X TIL about sakotis, a Lithuanian tree-shaped cake made by continuously pouring layers of batter onto a rotating cylinder. A 2 kilo cake uses 30 eggs, but the largest one ever made was 2 meters tall and used 1200 eggs!
rN0 TIL: In 1976 there was a wine tasting in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines to French wines. California won and the lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it.
69edm TIL smoking alcohol is a growing trend, and very dangerous.
69olQ TIL, the 1915 graduating class at West Point is called "the class the stars fell on" because 59 of 164 graduates attained the rank of general.
5Y0Qr TIL The person who wrote the lyrics for the second and third Soviet national anthems, Sergey Mikhalkov, also lived to write the lyrics for the current national anthem of Russia.