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TIL that the “taste bud map” that we were all taught in school was disproved in 1974 but they continue to teach it because it is easier then changing it..

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nYMY TIL the scientific adviser to the 2014 film Interstellar spent two weeks talking Christopher Nolan out of having a character travelling faster than the speed of light, as it defies the laws of physics
neQmo TIL That in 1978, a group of 18 farmers from Xiaogang Village in Anhui Province, China, secretly agreed to abandon collectivism and adopt private property rights by subdividing their collective farm. The change resulted in a harvest larger than the previous five years combined.
R7BWl TIL 9 of the 10 most common birthdays in the world are in September, with conception happening in the third or fourth week of December.
j6BZE TIL a bunch of comedians almost succeeded in pranking the 2007 Superbowl by getting the audience to spell out a message in lights during the Prince halftime show.
nEEb TIL in 1989, a small capsule, originally a part of a measurement device, containing highly radioactive caesium-137 was found inside the concrete wall of a Kramatorsk apartment building. By the time it was discovered, 6 residents of the building died from leukemia and 17 received doses of radiation.