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TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.

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1aAkV TIL that a McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona has its arches painted turquoise blue instead of the typical “Golden Arches”. The reason for this is because Sedona has strict rules concerning buildings in hopes that the colors don’t clash with the town’s surrounding natural scenery.
ANpjo TIL Hitler loathed New Zealanders as a “lower form of human being”. At a speech given on 15 July 1925 he argued that New Zealanders lived in trees and ”clambered around on all fours”, having not yet learned to walk upright.
yQ9lw TIL the SR-71's sonic boom was used to "remind [heads of state] that they were doing things that were counter to US policy."
lo85a TIL that the Australian accent developed from early settlers who spent most of their days drunk
W760L TIL almost all men are stronger than all women in terms of hand-grip strength