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TIL about molecular gastronomy. Also known as molecular cuisine, it basically is manipulating food using chemistry.

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rRgG0 TIL King Richard Lionheart had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city of Acre beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.
9wK8p TIL Midland, TX MSA, with just 170k population, is the richest metro area in America. It's GDP per capita is 57% higher than San Francisco MSA.
e0wVk TIL Jay Jackson, the actor who played Perd Hapley in Parks and Rec, used to be a real newscaster and only takes acting roles as a newscaster
J19y4 TIL what a LITHOPEDION is. It’s also called a “stone baby”— it happens when a baby dies during an ectopic pregnancy and instead of the body expelling it, the body calcifies it and it basically turns into stone- the baby can stay in the body for several DECADES and go unnoticed.
VGM4 TIL that 1 in 200 US births are to mothers who report that they have never had sex. Relative to “non-virgin” mothers not only do these mothers report lower communication from their parents about sex/contraception, but they were also younger and more likely to have signed chastity pledges.