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TIL its possible to scramble an egg while its still in the shell, thus creating a golden egg!

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YVVx TIL Nixon’s family was poor. They couldn’t afford lavish vacations. And there weren’t that many national parks. So he corrected that by creating the EPA.
vPLjK TIL The US Government has an entire telephone area code (710) reserved for itself, and there exists only one phone number in that entire area code.
0wJP1 TIL The Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has been been freezing and storing blue-fin tuna. They expect prices to skyrocket once the blue-fin tuna is extinct. They will own the only remaining supply.
LkkYm TIL that tea and coffee can inhibit your bodies ability to absorb iron
m1L5E TIL in the 1906 book 'John Dough and the Cherub' the titular Cherub was a child of indeterminate gender; the editors created a contest to guess the gender and second place argued girl as "if it had been a boy he would have eaten the ginger-bread man at once whether it agreed with him or not"