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TIL that Breakfast is Often Considered the Most Important Meal of the Day – But Is It Really?

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neyxP TIL the 'metallic' smell you can when handling coins etc is actually from the oils on your skin being catalysed by the metal
YpXJP TIL: Astronaut groupies in Florida were nicknamed "Cape Cookies". Infidelity was rife; wives had to maintain a perfect facade. Only 7/30 astro-marriages in the 60s survived. Alan Shepherd (first american in space), Pete Conrad (3rd man on the moon) and Dick Gordon (Apollo 12) formed the Go-Go crew.
X0GLr TIL despite being marketed as the main character, Drew Barrymore was killed off in the first scene of scream
RpnQ TIL that Rinconada, Peru is the worlds highest elevated city at 16,732 ft above sea level and its economy is based around a gold mine that operates on a unique system where employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry.
LkmLd TIL that among the 198 players drafted ahead of Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft was a Norwegian shot putter/defensive tackle/boxer.