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TIL Your brain alone burns 400-500 calories each day

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x6PVk TIL that there's a town in Scotland called Halfway, simply because it's half way between Glasgow and Hamilton
rNpgW Til that veggies sparks in the microwave from metals and minerals in them
BD1D TIL that following “Dunk-a-roos” being discontinued in the United States in 2012, General Mills in 2016 encouraged Canadians traveling to the United States to bring the snack to Americans who wanted it in a campaign called “Smugglaroos”, as the product still remains in production in Canada
woKDJ TIL the massive decimation of native populations in the Americas in the 1500s led to vast areas of cultivated land reverting to wilderness. This reforestation in turn contributed to a period of global cooling known as the "Little Ice Age"
nWWjd TIL that in 1985, First Lady Elena Ceaușescu demanded the Piața Romană metro station be removed because she thought "the workers and students were getting fat and needed more exercise". However, the engineers realized the station would be necessary so they built it in secret anyway.