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TIL The well-known phenomenon of "garlic breath" is allegedly alleviated by eating fresh parsley.

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ADwyo TIL - The USA has a record of 0-22 in Olympic Men’s field hockey, yet still have a bronze medal, because only three teams participated at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
XENx6 TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".
P1Nwg TIL about "Nobel Disease", a tendency for some Nobel Prize winners to adopt unfounded, pseudoscientific beliefs, often outside their areas of expertise.
9wOB7 TIL the white sushi rolls (ex California Roll) is an inside-out sushi roll called "uramaki" and it was invented in N. America by Japanese chef, Ichiro Machita in LA, in the 60s as a way to introduced people outside of Japan to sushi, bc the seaweed on the outside was not as appealing to non-Japanese
b6y67 TIL I have ACHOO Syndrome. Characterized by uncontrollable sneezing in response to the sudden exposure to bright light, typically intense sunlight