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TIL Tomatoes were thought to be toxic for 200 years in Europe, but their acidity actually helped to dissolve toxic metals from dishes.

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LGQP TIL: “Hoser”, as popularized by Bob & Doug McKenzie, dated back to when the Losers of outdoor hockey games in Canada had to hose the surface of the rink to make is smooth again.
yVJBw TIL Paul Dirac was the youngest-ever theoretician to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at thirty. Dirac published an equation in 1928 that physicists all over the world regarded as wondrous as it described behavior of electrons while accounting for spin
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