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TIL the reason we bake/roast almost everything at 350° is because the Maillard reaction and caramelization tends to happen between 300° and 350°

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VMGEp TIL of Six Californias, a proposed initiative in 2016 to split California into six separate states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. The initiative failed to meet the required signatures to make the ballot.
e4BD TIL: Native Americans serving in the Marine Corps are allowed to use Peyote for religious ceremonies as long as they are not on duty or within 24 hours of being ready to ship out.
4n5X TIL: Semen acts as a natural antidepressant for women. “In our studies, women who have unprotected sex have lower levels of depression, as measured on the gold standard evaluation tool, than those who have the same amount of sex with a condom.”
oRZQW TIL: Faulty calculations of a doctors surplus led U.S. medical schools to put a moratorium on enrollment between 1980 and 2005. During that time, the US population grew 70 million, but the number of medical school graduates stayed at 16,000 yearly.
x6Lpk TIL of Bill Millin, a Canadian musician who played bagpipes while under fire at Sword Beach during D-Day. He survived the war and died at the age of 88 in 2010.