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TIL America exports disposable chopsticks to China.

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oBDPW TIL Wearing sunglasses can improve your mood. Squinting your eyes in bright sunlight convinces your brain you are in a negative mood because people squint when they are angry. Wearing sunglasses can prevent you from squinting, and from involuntary frowning due to bright sunlight.
GQLj TIL John Couch Adams calculated the existence of Neptune, using mathematics, before the planet was ever observed.
yQOEa TIL: about Operation Gunnerside. 75 years ago 11 Norwegian commandos on skis infiltrated and destroyed a Nazi chemical plant developing the Atomic Bomb. They never fired a shot and Historians believe this set the Nazis back far enough for the US to develop The Bomb first.
J564 TIL George Washington Carver had nothing to do with inventing peanut butter, it was Marcellus Gilmore Edson, a Canadian
GYBpE TIL researchers discovered that applying a sonogram to a person's skull and stimulating specific brain regions can alter their mood. One researcher described applying it to his own head and later feeling like he had a martini. They hope to develop a sonogram-based device to treat mood disorders.