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TIL CO2 bonds with the moisture in your nose creating carbonic acid. That's why it burns when you burp after drinking a soda.

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5VmXn TIL that bees use mushrooms as a natural mite or pesticide killer, from the mycelium found in sawdust piles.
Y7Ro7 TIL according to medieval legend the Codex Gigas was created by a monk sentenced to be walled up alive; but to escape death promised to create, in one night, a book with all human knowledge. Near midnight, the desperate monk gave Lucifer his soul to finish the book. Thus, a nickname "Devil's Bible".
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