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TIL that a boiled egg can be unboiled with centrifugation

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69BB8 TIL that the slang term "The boonies", used to describe remote rural areas, is short for "The boondocks" which comes from the Tagalog word "Bundok", which means mountains. Boondocks was coined during the Philippine-American war of 1899.
ZpoRD TIL Jupiter's Magnetic Field Has Two South Poles - one located near the equator, and one near the South Pole
vK1x TIL: The USA imports more crude oil from Canada than it does from the Middle East!
9YEPX TIL the HMS Perseus submarine, was hit and sunk on December 6, 1941. John Capes and 3 others opened the escape hatch, and using an early type of oxygen breather, swam 170ft to the surface. Capes was the only survivor. He then spent 18 months on a Greek island evading capture from the Italian army.
g59W TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, taught French at Eton to an Eric Blair, who would later go on to use the pen name George Orwell.