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TIL: That hot water can cause cancer

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ADOgn TIL that 'meme' the word was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene to explain how cultural information spreads. The internet meme is just a subset of the same concept.
LkxEp TIL Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage created a combat robot. In its first two tournaments, they were asked to withdraw in exchange for co-champion status. In the first it had slung pieces of its opponents into the audience. In the second these pieces damaged the walls specifically improved for it.
5DR8 TIL the US suppressed a 1995 WHO study which proved that occasional cocaine use causes no physical or social problems. We only know it thanks to a 2009 Wikileak.
MD4b TIL there was a famous racehorse called Potoooooooo (or Pot-8-O) who acquired the strange spelling of his name, Potatoes, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it
x6k7 TIL that in America, 350 slices of pizza are sold every second.