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TIL that it is virtually impossible to die from quicksand in the way movies portray this.

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R59N6 TIL in 1959, thirty TV Westerns aired during prime time in the US; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns. In addition, an estimated $125 million in toys based on TV Westerns were sold that year.
M7oJ8 Til that most olive oil is real and California olive oil manufacturers made up the study about the Mafia and fake olive oil in Italy.
16Ovr TIL that until 1956 French kids drink wine at the school canteen! Prior to that, school children had the right to drink half a litre of wine, cider or beer with their meals
5VMEQ TIL about sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent developed in the late 60's and which revolutionized protein analysis, as it unfolds proteins and gives them the same shape and electric charge density. This later led to the development of a technique called SDS-PAGE, which separates proteins by mass.
vZdB TIL: Shark teeth are actually scales; that’s why they can infinitely grow them back