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TIL - Grocery stores spray water on produce to make it look fresher and weigh more, even though the water actually makes it rot faster

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GYXEE TIL that there was an Armenian genocide of 1.5 million people in 1915, and that “The United States and Israel, valuing diplomatic ties with Turkey” don’t “officially accept” it as fact.
VGRp TIL ‘you’ was plural but used for singular, not the reverse. It was used to show respect until the singular 'thou’ became kinda rude. This is why we say “you are” for both cases.
xV6QD TIL that the Italian painter Raphael was often accompanied by fifty scholars daily; when Michangelo greeted him one day, he said "You walk surrounded by an entourage like a general," and Raphael responded, "And you, you walk alone like an executioner."
BgoXL TIL General George S. Patton's heritage was part Mexican. The city of Yorba Linda is named after Patton's great-grandfather Bernardo Yorba, who was a prominent landowner in California before Mexico ceded California to the United States.
p8YRA TIL on August 21, 1986 Lake Nyos suffocated more 1,700 people after a sudden release of carbon dioxide.