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TIL that there is a fudge factory in a town called Uranus in Missouri

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kOZ7W TIL that in the Hawaiian language, there are over 200 different words for rain, depending on the colour, intensity, duration, accompanying wind, time of year, the paths the drops fall in, the area it falls in, and even if it falls shortly after a loved one's death.
v1xm4 TIL why the cut apple turns brown. It turns out that the enzymes and polyphenols in the apple react with oxygen; now some apples on the market will not change color because they have been genetically modified.
J4m4 TIL that the co-writer for “Batman V Superman”,David Goyer, admitted that ‘Batman Vs. Superman is where you go when you admit to yourself that you’ve exhausted all possibilities’
EgGvV TIL Russian linguist and decipherer of the Mayan script Yuri Knorozov always listed his cat Asya as his co-author, but the editors always removed her. He always used a photo of him with Asya as the author photo, and was annoyed when the editors cropped her out.
699vQ TIL: The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 1016%; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.