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TIL People who constantly point out grammar mistakes typically have "less agreeable" personalities, are less open, and more likely to judge you for your mistakes.

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jOdR TIL the ‘Secret’ Coca-Cola component (flavoring 7X) was leaked in 2011. The ingredients are a mix of herb, spices, and fruits from oils of orange, lemon, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, and neroli. This gave the medicinal claims Coca-Cola had about alleviating headaches.
0dRdy TIL about the expulsion of the Turks from Crete. Once composing over a third of the Islands population, the Turkish Population on Crete was expelled and exchanged in 1898 following ethnic violence and the Greco-Ottoman Wars, leaving the island in Greek hands.
VMWgm TIL of Betteridge's law of headlines - "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".
oVdA TIL that a popular 17th century Chinese concoction of pickled fish & spices called “kê-chiap” was picked up by the English explorers. The English settlers took it with them to the American colonies. This concoction became quite popular and we know it today as Ketchup.
lXGG TIL a World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself