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TIL: Sour candy can help with panic attacks

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pYrKZ TIL According to Greek traditions, tossing children’s loose teeth to a roof brings good luck.
78bAL TIL that the U.S. planned to build the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Superconducting Super Collider, in Texas. It was meant to surpass CERN’s LHC but was canceled in 1993 after about $2 billion were spent.
kJj51 TIL that phones did not always have LCD screens. Before the rise of iOS and Android, "house phones" (as they were known back then) had no displays, and required the user to press square plastic mechanical buttons in order to input the number that you wanted to call.
LQ0Am TIL In 1943, due to both teams losing a large number of players to military service in World War II, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles merged and thus created the Steagles. They ended with a winning season of 5-4-1.
xQG0 TIL that Star Wars is mostly unknown in China. Few saw Episodes 4-6 in theaters; Episodes 1-3 are better known. Disney had to educate fans about the franchise when promoting The Force Awakens. “Marvel characters are the American action heroes to a whole generation of millions of Chinese”, instead.