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TIL - lab cells cultured from a dead woman weigh more than her (over millions of tons)

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1aOGD TIL that while many producer have tags in their songs with says their name, Pharrell Williams' producer tag is the four beats that repeats in front of songs like Kelis' Milkshake and Snoopdogg's Drop it Like it's Hot
Gj14 TIL the average color of light in the universe is a shade of beige dubbed “Cosmic Latte”
QN4Rp TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds
DDnP TIL that John Wayne died of stomach cancer, which is highly suggested to have been caused by filming downwind of a nuclear weapons test. Wayne refused to believe the fallout caused his cancer and instead attributed it to his smoking. However, 90 others from the movie also developed cancer after.
6EJ4m TIL that the "short" in shortcrust pastry refers to how the fats in the dough stop the flour from forming long gluten proteins in any direction; puff pastry has glutens in layers between layers of fat, like lasagne sheets. Overwork it, and glutens are formed in all directions, making it tough!