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TIL having nostalgia for a time you've never known is called Anemoia.

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4Xbew TIL if the Queen pops her handbag on the table at dinner, it reportedly means she wants dinner to end within the next five minutes. If it goes on the floor, rumour has it, she's tired of the conversation and wants to be whisked off quickly by her lady-in-waiting.
Yp4kB TIL Mcdonald’s history, in 1961, hamburger university was open in Illinois McDonald’s, where students used to get degrees in the professional making of burgers.
BrRYe TIL Nanocardboard is made out of an aluminum oxide film with a thickness of tens of nanometers. Its sandwich structure, similar to that of corrugated cardboard, makes it more than 10,000x as stiff as a solid plate of the same mass. Shining a light on a piece of nanocardboard allows it to levitate.
DQ5jg TIL penguins oil was an alternative oil product when seal oil resources were depleted on Antarctic islands
yVvk8 TIL: It’s illegal in California to drive in a way meant to show-off or impress someone else