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TIL over 60% of the top psychological studies could not be reproduced.

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mxQEM TIL that our ability to taste sour comes from our ability to detect Hydrogen ions in our saliva. Hydrogen ions are Hydrogen atoms lacking their electron leaving just a proton. Thus protons are sour!
E1BEd TIL that Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov, the heir to the former Russian monarchy, is an artist currently living in California
E1ked TIL that the dog breed 'shih tzu' were bred for royalty in ancient China and where pets for many emperors.
x6600 TIL Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off
4keQo TIL that "the dark side of the moon" means "unknown", not literally dark. "Each location on the Moon experiences two weeks of sunlight while the opposite location experiences night."