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TIL In the movie Ratatouille (2007), the recipe used to make the dish is a real recipe designed by a famous chef known as Thomas Keller...it takes 4 hours to make

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eOWL TIL Portuguese king John II was called “The Man”/“The Dude” (El Hombre) by queen Isabella of Castile (Spain)
LeDV TIL: The inability to pronounce the letter “R” is called Rhotacism, thus making it impossible for the sufferers to pronounce their own affliction.
wL4Zo TIL John C. Calhoun cast the most tie-breaking votes of any American Vice President
0YZj TIL Dyson Airblade hand-driers spread 60 times more germs than standard air dryers, and 1,300 times more than standard paper towels, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.
xV850 TIL that after Part 1 of "Who Shot Mr. Burns" aired, someone on Usenet correctly guessed the identity of Mr. Burns' killer the same night. However, the producers were unable to contact this person after Part 2 aired, because the person used a college email address that was defunct by that time.