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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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v1AVD TIL Credit Card Information can be stolen wirelessly from an arms length while you still have them in your purse. Thieves wirelessly scanned a credit card in a woman's purse while she exited her vehicle outside a Walmart store and then used it while she was still inside the store.
gMZm8 TIL almost no babies are born with Down Syndrome in Iceland, because nearly 100 percent of women who receive a positive test for the condition choose to terminate the pregnancy.
XEwRr TIL, a dish made of seaweed called laverbread is a part of the traditional Welsh breakfast.
wowBJ TIL that despite being selected as Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1928, Charles Curtis was almost completely against Hoover winning the Republican Nomination for President due to his pedigree as a progressive follower of Theodore Roosevelt, which did not sit well with conservatives like Curtis.
GmBG TIL after Michael Jordan scored a game-high 69 points, teammate Stacey King quipped “I’ll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points”