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TIL that dogs can be right or left pawed just like humans!

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W7GGY TIL Tarantino created the part of Jules in Pulp Fiction for Laurence Fishburne but he turned it down. This created a butterfly effect that actually made Samuel L Jackson get the part in Die Hard 3 which also written for Fishburne
ZpJZQ Today I learned it takes about 21 gallons of water to produce one ear of corn.
1aK0O TIL Meilleurs Ouvriers de France , is an honorary title given to the best Chefs in France, since 1920 only 200 have been awarded, the candidates show high technical skills : Pollack in one dish has to be pierced in four places by Herring Lardons, the latter imparts its saltiness into the Pollack.
xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
l16G TIL a 1997 study on affirmative action showed that, controlling for grades and SAT scores, “Whites were three times, Hispanics six times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US university as Asian-Americans.”