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TIL Brussels sprouts and cilantro contain flavour compounds that are undetectable to some, but make the foods unpalatable to others.

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E4rd TIL Bob Barker is Macklemore’s step grandfather
e0Zm6 TIL that hundreds or thousands of mites - microscopic tiny eight-legged animals - are living in the pores. They are related to spiders or ticks, spend most of their lives in our pores, and while we sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.
R7o18 TIL that Dr. Seuss was childless, but invented a whole clan of fictional offspring with bizarre talents that he could bring up whenever friends annoyed him by boasting about their own kids' accomplishments. He even got a group of neighborhood kids into posing as them for a fake Christmas card photo
OA84 TIL of the Hospital Broadcasting Association, which takes song requests from hospital patients. Their list of banned songs include Stairway To Heaven, The Final Countdown and I Want To Live.
rRbje TIL the album "The Mollusk" by the 90s Indie band Ween was one of the primary inspirations for Spongebob.