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TIL: Lime is the most universally liked scent
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TIL that Einstein’s brain was stolen and at one point was chopped into pieces and stored in a cider box under the thief’s beer cooler.
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TIL the Rick Ross you know is actually an impostor of the real Rick Ross who, went to jail for 20 years for trafficking drugs (millions and millions), and when he came out, discovered someone was making millions pretending to be him.
7MZX
TIL that it is preferable to be electrocuted by a current greater than 200 milliamps rather than 100-200 milliamps. Your chances of survival are much higher in the upper range because your heart clamps rather than fibrillates.
EgPVp
TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee.
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TIL that so many British men died in World War I that young women were warned that only 10% would marry. Newspapers discussed the country’s “Surplus Two Million” women.