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TIL that the “food coma” which describes the tiredness encountered after eating a meal is actually a medically proven process called alkaline tide.

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Rvb9 TIL McDonald’s offers product placement rewards to rap artists who mention the Big Mac in their songs.
jN0EM TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was given an open casket despite having a mutilated body and the Soviet government only being able to recover a chipped heal bone because it was his last wish and a way to send a message to the government officials who had forced his flight in a dangerous craft.
VMDD4 TIL during World War 2's "Battle for Britain" the British Home Guard were so under equipped that many volunteers received neither weapons or uniforms, with many improvising shotguns and explosives
grr69 TIL that the symbols used in comics as a substitution for profanity or other vulgar language are called "grawlixes," a term coined by Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker.
RKb8 TIL Aaron Burr believed women to be intellectually equal to men and, upon his election to the New York State Legislature, submitted a bill to allow women to vote.