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TIL stainless steel is made stainless by adding chrome to the steel

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wo0eo TIL that coffee fueled the Enlightenment by providing a safe alternative to contaminated water and alcohol
R7Zva TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.
eZwb TIL that by the 1600s, the Spanish royal family had a higher infant-mortality rate than their peasants.
RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.
pK1e TIL - Probes and other spacecraft have a one in a billion chance of hitting something in the asteroid belt due to the low density of it.