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TIL: rub some baking soda on tough meat to tenderize it

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ADAm7 TIL Greenland sharks are the longest living vertebrates on Earth with one female being carbon dated at about 400 years old. The sharks grow at just 1cm a year, and reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150.
GYeK5 TIL that the music video of the song "The Reason" by Hoobastank, is actually supposed to simulate the band members robbing a store. The car crash shown at the start is a diversion.
rRPAy TIL that the term "gaslighting" comes from a 1938 British play called "Gas Light", which follows a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.
KOPe4 TIL it took 3 grips to restrain Sean Connery from killing the Camera Man on the set of Zardoz (1974) after the Camera man accidentally opened the camera and exposed a days worth of film. That day's filming involved Connery in heavy makeup, which he hated, so he was furious to have to film it again
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