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TIL that taste and flavor are not the same. Flavor consists of taste, aroma, and texture. Taste is a component of flavor that is determined by taste buds on our tongue and soft palate.

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M7AXa TIL about Lake Vostok, an Antarctic subglacial lake kept liquid at -3 degrees Celsius due to the sheer pressure of the 4000 meters thick ice sheet above it. Having been isolated for around 25 million years, the lake is said to hold clues about potential extraterrestial life on the icy moon Europa
J17a8 TIL A German horse was taught math.. except it was later found that the horse had learnt to recognise human reactions to its answers and was just "counting up to the answer" until it got the right reaction
mxPAM TIL Scientists discovered what they think are the world's oldest biological colours - they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1billion year old rocks in the marine shale deposit beneath the Sahara desert.
PxwE TIL actress Hedy Lamarr was also a mathematician and the inventor of frequency hopping spread spectrum, a technology still used for bluetooth and wifi
gE79 TIL - The pilot episode of “Archer” was re-animated with archer and all of his lines replaced by a velociraptor.