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TIL the the chemical formula of the salt that makes solid cheese smooth and creamy spells out NaCHO.

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1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.
LkMrQ TIL that the Myers-Brigg Personality Test is characterized as pseudoscience, due to its "consistent problems with repeatability, in addition to problems of whether or not it has exhaustive and mutually exclusive classifications", landing it on the same list as Modern flat Earth beliefs and astrology
oRkw7 TIL East Timor has the highest percentage of Catholics per total population in world at 98%, after the Vatican city.
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b9vlZ TIL that Glenn Shadix, the actor who played Otho in Beetlejuice, was subjected to “ex gay” electrical shock treatments when he came out to his parent. When this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide and survived a 3 day coma. After the incident, his parents accept ed his sexuality.