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TIL that standard calorie counts for foods ignore the effect of cooking, and cooked food has significantly more effective calories because it's more easily digested.

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nkp9 TIL that a “moment” is actually medieval unit of time that is equal to 1.5 minutes. There are 40 moments in an hour.
7rYwZ TIL that Norman Mineta’s baseball bat was confiscated when he was sent to a Japanese American internment camp as a boy. As a Congressman, he was sent a $1500 bat, which he had to send back, as it exceeded a price limit on gifts. He was quoted as saying, “The damn government’s taken my bat again.”
5e5D TIL the Taliban arrested thousands of men for having Leonardo Dicaprio-style haircuts after “Titanic fever” swept Afghanistan
e0xDL TIL Hallmark movies take 3 weeks to film with a $2mil budget.
xl70 TIL many motorcycles in Brazil have a long antenna like rod on the front of their bike to catch kite lines that have glass attached to them.