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TIL that John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, were actually third cousins

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RAd7 TIL that it was a physician named John Snow who deduced that the cause of spread of Cholera in London in mid-nineteenth century, was contaminated water. His evidence included the 70 workers in the local brewery who only drank beer and all survived.
6rZQ TIL in 2013 some people posing as cops and robbing citizens in Detroit turned out to be cops going around robbing citizens in Detroit.
r6Yo TIL that the flood scene was so wildly out of control in “Noah’s Ark” (1928) that three extras drowned and one lost a leg. Michael Curtiz - the director - is best known for his film “Casablanca”.
8aaBK TIL dogs tilt their head because they can't resolve the direction of sound vertically, but humans can because of our ear shape
16rDX TIL calories in food are measured by exploding a dehydrated food in an oxygen filled canister surrounded by water. The explosion of the food item gives off energy that heats the surrounding water. The increase in temperature of the water is how we calculate calories.