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TIL Searing meat can create a tasty crust, but it does not seal or lock in the meat's juices.

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R7XN9 TIL that the little "light" dots that sometimes fly around in your vision are called "blue-sky sprites" and its part of a phenomenon called "Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon" where white blood cells are moving in the capillaries in-front of your retina.
bbp7 TIL that Ben Sliney, the man that ordered all commercial planes to be grounded on 9/11, did so on his first day on the job.
M7Qx0 TIL on 1962, Mississippi Senate expressed its "complete, entire and utter contempt for the Kennedy administration and its puppet courts" about the integration of Ole Miss, when protesting against the admission of James Meredith
P87n TIL there is a temple in India where women come to shave their heads as part of a religious ceremony. After they leave, the temple sells the hair to companies that make hair extensions.
wLL77 It’s never as smelly as you think it is