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TIL it is the chemical reaction between vegetables and olive oil that makes the Mediterranean diet healthy.

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Yyyr TIL that the Earth’s core contains enough gold and platinum that if extracted and poured onto the Earth’s surface it would cover the entire Earth with a coating 0.45 m (1.5 feet) deep.
GK97 TIL that after the bombing of Hiroshima, there were “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now eyeless and faceless — with their heads transformed into blackened alligator hides displaying red holes, indicating mouths.”
7WEr TIL There is a popular toothpaste in China that is titled “Darlie” and is formerly titled “Darkie”. In Chinese it still literally translates to “black people toothpaste” (黑人牙膏). Its logo is a black man smiling.
JW1V TIL Daisy from The Great Gatsby is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s girlfriend, Ginevra King. She broke up with him saying “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls”. The last time they met she asked if someone in Gatsby was based on her. Fitzgerald replied “Which bitch do you think you are?”
vo5L TIL leeches really do have medicinal properties like they believed in ancient times, and are kept in hospitals to aid recovery from advanced micro­surgery, including the reattach­ment of appen­dages, skin grafts and plastic surgery.