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TIL that the French stole the croissant from the Austrians.
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TIL not only are Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson (Mac and Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philly) married in real life, but they even own a bar together in Philadelphia. It’s called “Mac’s Tavern”.
lomQ7
TIL that people tend to exhibit a negativity bias, which means that the negative experiences they have had impact them more strongly than positive experiences on psychological states and processes.
ZExR
TIL there is a bottled water company in Australia which extracts 100% of its water from fruits - by pressing apples and oranges and then separating the juice from the H2O
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TIL that the word “Tycoon” is a corruption of the Japanese word 大君 (taikun, “great prince”). Which was the tile for the Shogun of Japan.
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TIL that a neutron star is so dense that if an object was dropped from one meter above the star’s surface, it would hit the surface at a speed of 7.2 million km per hour