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LkLVP TIL that in the same way helium can make your voice go high-pitched by breathing helium, you can make your voice go deep by breathing Sulfur hexafluoride
b9yn7 TIL authors of the NUCLEAR WINTER hypothesis, Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, conceded to significantly scale back their theory after much criticism from specialized experts, including exaggerated numbers of dust and ash which wouldn't be the case from airburst nukes.
5VwWp TIL Betty Crocker's Bisquick, "A World of Baking in a Box," is review-bombed and has lowered sales. The recipe was changed in 2022; recipes now require the addition of oil. Bisquick fans are unaware of the formula changes (following old recipes not the ones on the box).
5YGZ8 TIL that Ted Danson's character in 'Cheers' was based upon a real life MLB pitcher and alcoholic named Sam McDowell
Wkak8 TIL that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sect of Judaism and the Quaker sect of Christianity are both named after the exact same word (Isaiah 66:2): "Yet to such a one I look: To the poor and brokenhearted, who 'quakes' (חָרֵד in the original Hebrew, pronounced 'hared') before my word"