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TIL molten glass becomes a conductor of electricity.
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TIL The California roll (a kind of sushi roll) was created in Vancouver, Canada by Chef Hidekazu Tojo in the 70’s.
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TIL that the humans cannot actually multitask. We really just rapidly switch our focus between multiple tasks.
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TIL Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” has spent a total 923 weeks (17 years, 9 months) on the Billboard 200 chart, including a 741 week (14 years, 3 months) stint after being released. The second longest total time on the chart is 490 weeks.
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TIL Frances Bean Cobain turned down the lead role of Bella in Twilight because she thought it was a ‘sexist, Mormon Piece of S**t’, according to her mother, Courtney Love
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TIL that the ‘104 days of summer vacation’ referenced in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon song was used because co-creator Dan Povenmire only expected the show to last 52 episodes, like most Disney Channel shows lasted at the time, and there were two segments per episode, making it 104.