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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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XEMeR TIL Marlon Brando was only 47 years old when he starred in The Godfather (1972). It required meticulous make-up work by Dick Smith to transform him into the elderly patriarch Vito Corleone.
b9gkj TIL that it took nearly 2 hours to execute convicted murderer Joseph Wood. An hour after being injected with midazolam & hydromorphone (15 times the lethal dose), the prisoner was still alive. Lawyers filed an emergency appeal to halt the execution. Ten minutes after he died, the appeal was denied.
v1nxD TIL that axoltols can regrow limbs, tails, hearts, eyes, parts of the brain, and even the central nervous system.
VMep TIL George Koval: Soviet master spy that infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of our nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and was only discovered as a spy in 2002.
negxo TIL SIM card is not just an ordinary piece of read-only memory. It's a separate micro-computer with its own environment capable of running Java Card applets