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TIL Cooking salty/marinated foods in aluminum foil can add a hazardous amount of aluminum content into the food.

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x8ag TIL The Famous painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch has been attributed symbolically to Trigeminal Neuralgia which is cranial and facial pain considered the most painful condition known to humankind.
LVYP TIL 400,000 ex-rental cars are sold in the UK every year. Many are tagged as vehicles with “one previous owner”.
JoL8 TIL Big Ben Clock Towers time is kept accurate by adding or removing pennies on its pendulum changing the clock’s speed by +/- 0.4 seconds per day
QJle9 TIL that, in biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.
6VvX TIL when Canada switched to the Metric System in 1970, a group of angry Conservative members of Parliament opened up an illegal “Freedom to Measure” gas station, which sold gas in gallons.