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TIL that salting fresh pineapple reduces the “acid burn” effect you get after eating too much of it (and it makes the pineapple taste sweeter)

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b9J8N TIL Tycho Brahe, the famed Danish astronomer noted for the accuracy of his observations, had a pet elk who died after consuming too much beer and falling down the stairs. Brahe also lost part of his nose after a sword duel with his third cousin over which of them was the superior mathematician.
8e9o8 TIL The Anāl people are a tribe found in Manipur, India, and in Myanmar. They speak their own language, Anāl.
WMgY TIL that it is estimated that we have a 2% chance of confirming extraterrestrial life within ten years.
4k96N TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.
yQ64X TIL that a special vending machine was created to see whether crows are smart enough to use it. They are.