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TIL that most laundry detergents are blue because the dye cancels out "yellowing".

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NQVP TIL that Mozart once wrote a prank composition that could only be played if the pianist stretched his two hands to the fullest, simultaneously hitting the middle notes with his nose.
j6NKX TIL that European football fans used to throw bananas onto the field to taunt players of African descent.
J1N8Q TIL the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, which refers to female characters in fiction being killed or seriously harmed to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, is particularly prevalent in the MCU
k0RE TIL that the English invented a machine that functioned as both an alarm clock and a kettle. They were designed so the user would have a freshly made cup of tea at their bedside as soon as they woke up in the morning.
16apr TIL unlike poison, snake venom is generally not effective when swallowed, since venom is meant to go directly into the bloodstream to cause damage. (Please do not drink snake venom)