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TIL the "taste bud mapping" we learned in school has been discredited for years and is still a mystery.

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p8418 TIL that the "boiling frog fable" - the premise that a frog suddenly put into boiling water will jump out, but if put into tepid water which is then slowly brought to a boil, will cook to death - is false: a frog that is gradually heated WILL jump out
4XB8g TIL That while a cow eats basically no fat in its natural diet, bacteria digest the grass such that the cow absorbs 70% of its calories from fats
9YO5X TIL former Manchester United player Patrice Evra has 23 brothers and sisters
7rWlX TIL J.R.R. Tolkien is credited with inventing Orcs.
bkLZ TIL Huey Lewis achieved a perfect 800 in math on his SATs