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TIL that Ultrasuede (a form of synthetic suede) is partly made from molasses

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EgEGw TIL about the winterworm, people pay ALOT to eat the cordyceps fungus in Asia. Made famous by the recent TV drama The Last of Us, prices are as high as $18,000 per kg. Eaten for its herbal properties its known as the viagra of Tibet.
9BaD TIL 6 months before the Challenger disaster a lone engineer told his superiors about the O-Ring problem and warned the result “would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life”.
nd5r TIL There is a Hall and Oates Emergency Hopeline where you can call and listen to your choice of four different songs. The number is: (719) 26-OATES
lodv7 TIL about DOOMSCROLLING. The act of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative.
gMxX8 TIL that nobody in Pink Floyd sang, or had their vocals recorded, on “Have a Cigar”. The vocals were sung (and recorded) by Roy Harper. And Roger Waters is still pissed about it.