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TIL there are two different types of Pyrex: PYREX (capital letters) is borosilicate, which is subjectively better but no longer made in the US, and pyrex (lowercase letters) which is soda-lime glass.

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WkKy4 TIL that with a budget of $25,000 and a profit of $22.5 million, the film with the highest percentage of return on investment (90,000%) is 1972‘s “Deep Throat”.
Z84rR TIL about the dihydrogen monoxide parody, the action of calling water by an unfamiliar chemical name, listing "side effects" which are just scientific terms for harmless water-related bodily processes, and calling for it to be banned. This demonstrates the importance of scientific literacy.
ADMmo TIL that young chimpanzees outperformed college students, in both in speed and accuracy, at a working memory task involving numbers. This suggest that chimps have a photographic memory, which allows them to memorize a complex scene or pattern at a glance.
nWngY TIL There was a 55,000-person Yugioh riot in 1999 over special-edition cards, with riot police called on the kids at the Tokyo Dome
X8L8 TIL there are more trees in North America than there were 100 years ago.