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TIL in NBA history no team has ever come back to win after trailing 3–0 in a playoff series

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N76Ee TIL that my learned habit of putting 2 spaces after a period is woefully out of date.
YxAr TIL that economists have discovered that insider knowledge of top-secret CIA coups has been used to make huge financial profits
awp8L TIL that due to altitude, your tastebud sensitivity to salts and sweets are reduced 30%. And because 80% of what people think is taste is actually smell, the 12% humidity in a pressurized airplane cabin causes odor receptors not to function, food tastes twice as bland than on the ground.
oQNW TIL that circular plastic thing that goes in the middle of a pie to prevent the pizza from sticking to the top of the pizza box is called a pizza saver. And it was invented 30 years ago on February 10, 1983 when Carmela Vitale got her patent issued for that piece of plastic.
noVG TIL there is such a thing as one-way bulletproof glass. This allows you to return fire through the glass while still keeping you protected from the attacker (your shot leaves a bullet-sized hole, but doesn’t compromise the rest of the shield).