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TIL Cheddar Cheese is artificially dyed orange

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RLEa TIL that a pair of headphones, plugged into a microphone jack, will work as a microphone. A microphone will similarly work as a speaker if plugged into the headphones jack. The internal components of the two devices are functionally identical.
arRy TIL that the woman who won $2.9 million by suing McDonald’s over spilled hot coffee asked for only $20,000, to cover her medical bills.
GAGp1 TIL that the fear of long words is names hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
LkbMr TIL since 1922, the British Royal Horticultural Society has given out an annual Award of Garden Merit to the plant or crop which performs best under UK growing conditions.
mxwLy TIL that NASA renamed it's condom sizes (used for urinating) from small, medium, and large, ginormous, and humongous because astronauts would get spacesuits dirty due to picking ill-fitting sizes.