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TIL we can eat an entire bag of chips without knowing it because chips have a “vanishing caloric density” that is designed to trick our tongues/brain into thinking we haven’t actually eaten anything

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PVrL TIL that when asked how he had managed to gather so much information on his classmates, 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg replied that they were “Dumb fucks” for trusting him
k9md TIL the United States has a higher adult literacy rate than Europe and Japan despite its poor reputation in education
exQb TIL carrots used to be available in purple and white until the 17th century when Dutch farmers succeeded in growing the first orange carrots in honour of the ruling House of Orange-Nassau.
vWYL TIL that Colgate-Palmolive acquired Mennen, the manufacturer of Teen Spirit deodorant, for $670 Million in 1992; motivated by the popularity of Nirvana’s single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit"
grl89 TIL Kandahar, Afghanistan was named after Alexander the Great, who named it Alexandria in Arachosia in 330BC. The name evolved from "Iskandar" (pronounced "Scandar"), the local dialect version of the name Alexander.