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TIL Babies have about 30,000 taste buds, while adults have only about 10,000

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PJln TIL Bruce Lee used edible Marijuana on a regular basis
jNWON TIL in 1917, Salvation Army volunteers provided supplies and baked goods to American soldiers. The women fried doughnuts in the soldiers' helmets and were known as "Doughnut Lassies" popularizing doughnuts in the USA. National Doughnut Day is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year.
R7jyQ TIL that in south London in 1864, Thomas Webster Rammell built an atmospheric railway for passenger transportation, called Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway, that went around 39.6 km/h (24.6 mph) through a 2.7x3m tunnel just by varying the air pressure in the tunnel before/behind the railway wagon.