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TIL if you’re starting with boiling water instead of cold water to hard boil eggs, if you dip the eggs in and out of the boiling water before you drop them in they’re less likely to crack.

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JYv51 TIL The worlds biggest shopping mall (The Dubai Mall ) has over 1200 stores, is 10 million square feet and has access to the worlds tallest building (Burj Khalifa).
yVjjM TIL American writer Cormac McCarthy wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
ADOJ7 TIL crude oil comes chiefly from dead microorganisms, not dinosaurs
aaWJ TIL - A peanut grows underground, but peanuts are not attached to the roots of the plant. Peanut plants flower above ground; a budding ovary grows down to penetrate the soil and produce a peanut.
gkK8 TIL that the kings in regular playing cards refer to specific historical kings.