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TIL: The one hundred folds in a chef’s hat represent one hundred ways to cook an egg

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8anXG TIL: a “fair” coin toss doesn’t truly have a 50/50 chance of landing on either side, but rather a 51% chance of showing the side originally facing up, according to a 2004 Stanford study on angular dynamics
ZQgB TIL: Johnny Cash guest stared in The Simpsons voicing a fox that Homer hallucinated after eating a spicy pepper.
PRRV TIL the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NYC is so polluted that unidentifiable new forms of microbiological life have arisen in its sludge
ADWeo TIL contact lenses were first proposed by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1508. He described a method of directly altering corneal power by either submerging the head in a bowl of water or wearing a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye.
5V8w9 TIL that the Roman Emperor Vespasian once levied a tax on urine—the collected urine from public urinals was used in processes like leather tanning and laundering. When questioned about the nature of this revenue, Vespasian famously replied, "Pecunia non olet," meaning “money does not stink.”