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TIL The difference between cupcakes and muffins lies in how the ingredients are mixed. Muffins are a quick bread with gently combined ingredients. Cupcakes are made from well blended batter

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RVX9 TIL that in 1922 when scientist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize he was given a house by Carlsberg brewery. The house was located next to the brewery and it had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
Jl8v TIL that between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun. It will complete its revolution in the year 2178.
xD1o TIL the word “Ewok” was never used throughout the entire filming of “Return of the Jedi”. It only appears in the credits.
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ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.