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TIL It's a myth rats/mice absolutely love cheese, they prefer sweet foods

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xV4N7 TIL The Ming Dynasty did not have the Ancient Chinese Secret Commercial, much less the Calgon. They use artificial alkali to clean their clothes. This gives us an idea of what detergent the ancient Chinese used. A very good Ming Dynasty blog post.
VMYgk TIL that in most places in Switzerland, they won’t collect trash that’s not in special bags that are sold with a built-in fee. Recycling, however, is cheap or free. As a result, Switzerland recycles 54% of solid municipal waste (double the European average) and 76% of recyclable items
M5Dm TIL Spielberg suggested Ron Howard (the director of Apollo 13) to use KC-135 - an airplane that could create 23 seconds of weightlessness for filming certain scenes. Those scenes were filmed in bursts of 25 seconds after flying 612 parabolas, adding up to a total of 3hrs 54mins of weightlessness.
M7K90 TIL that A. A. Milne stopped writing Winnie the Pooh books partially because he was worried about the fame it brought his son, Christopher Robin Milne. They later became estranged because his son resented the books and the fame they brought him.
9YpMm TIL The number of girls in India who drop out of school due to menstruation is 1 in 5 (20%).