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TIL that a 1992 reformulation of Doritos to make Nacho Cheesier Doritos had the unintended effect of lessening 'Doritos breath,' the lingering mouth stink generated by garlic powder

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OPxe TIL 98% of women in Somalia have experienced forced gential mutilation
AQAa TIL that the first black man to play in Major League Baseball was Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856-1924), not Jackie Robinson.
5VWYp TIL Mi’kmaq used birch bark canoes or hollowed-out hemlock logs fitted with long wooden runners or “skates” to sprint over the ice and water to Prince Edward Island. The British copied this design in the 1800s for Royal Mail delivery
GGwG TIL In 1976, a 23-year-old chemistry grad student synthesized a synthetic opiate which he used recreationally as a “legal high.” Unbeknownst to him, the drug contained a neurotoxic impurity that caused Parkinson’s disease symptoms.
edy6 TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.