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TIL about the noise marines in Warhammer 40K. Chaos Marines with guitars

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yQRQM TIL when kerosene disrupted whale oil for lamps, two companies—Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie—discovered how to harden whale oil into margarine. They bought up all the whale oil, met with success and are a $150B corporation today, better known as Unilever!
OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.
MdxK TIL Wyoming’s Devils Tower has no apostrophe in its name. It was accidentally left off when Teddy Roosevelt signed the document making it a National Landmark and has never been fixed.
e0bWJ TIL that Caribbean sperm whales have a different “speaking” accent than whales in other oceans.
W7L8B TIL that, in 1805, Carl Friedrich Gauss had actually invented Fast Fourier Transform even before Fourier Transform itself but it was forgotten because he didn't publish it. It was re-invented about 160 years later by James Cooley & John Tukey, in a bid to detect nuclear bomb testing underground.