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TIL that when tomatoes are stored in a refrigerator (or in an environment under 54° F) their flavor is impacted negatively

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xVWa7 TIL about the only instrumental song to have been banned by radio stations in the United States: "Rumble" by Link Wray & His Ray Men.
R7rla TIL "Fee-fi-fo-fum" Roughly translates to "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger"
Gp9g TIL that belief in elves is so widespread in Iceland that in in 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to look for elves who might be endangered by American Phantom jets and AWACS reconnaissance planes.
epaM5 TIL-Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater
LQBVv TIL that we will probably never discover many highly specialized dinosaur species because they lived in environments where they could not be preserved due to erosion, e.g. mountains