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TIL Not a Single Person Has Been Hurt Or Killed While Under The Witness Protection Program.

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awp8L TIL that due to altitude, your tastebud sensitivity to salts and sweets are reduced 30%. And because 80% of what people think is taste is actually smell, the 12% humidity in a pressurized airplane cabin causes odor receptors not to function, food tastes twice as bland than on the ground.
PAnG TIL On 31 December 1759 Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for the St. James Gate brewery.
yQx9J TIL The Epic of Gilgamesh is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature and the second oldest religious text.
Z8oV4 TIL that in 1829, nineteen Australian convicts revolted and seized a ship near Tasmania, which they then sailed to Japan. Though they offered gifts, including a boomerang, the Japanese expelled them and they ended up being recaptured in China.
neaNP TIL about ablaut reduplication, which is an interesting and necessary rule in the english language that most people are unaware of. This rule pertains to the order in which we say repeated words with changing vowels. E.g saying ding-dong sounds completely normal whereas dong-ding sounds insane.