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TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality

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16187 TIL While we've all heard of internal combustion engines (ICE) common in motor vehicles, there are actually external combustion engines (ECE) too
0wO7v TIL that since Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a trained Broadway singer, he had to re-record the famous George answering machine song because he sung it too well; Larry David wanted him to purposely sing terrible to make it sound believable.
ADyko TIL Piz Buin sunscreen Brand is named after the Alpine mountain between Switzerland and Austria where the inventor, a chemistry student, got sunburned during a climbing trip. The sunscreen was originally invented for use on mountains and glaciers, and called "Glacier Cream".
4kJGb TIL that one of the reasons why Wendy's restaurants got rid of their solariums (aka sunrooms) is because they were expensive to cool in the summer and heat in the winter. Another reason was due to changing architectural trends.
nWDbo TIL that all diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob and fatal insomnia, have a perfect 100% mortality rate. There are no cases of survival and these diseases are invariably fatal.