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TIL that lacking access to saltwater or salt deposits, the remote Apatani tribe of Northeast India have made use of a homemade salt substitute called tapyo, It is made from shrubs and ash.

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Br64y TIL that the author of Goodnight Moon bequeathed the royalties to her friend's 9-year-old son. It earned him millions of dollars, but he blew it all on frivolous spending and was arrested dozens of times for minor crimes.
5ZJr TIL of the Scoville scale for measuring the heat of peppers. The capsaicinoids are extracted and diluted until 3/5ths of expert tasters cannot taste the heat. The units refer to the number of drops of water used for dilution: 1 million means 1 drop of extract requires 1 million drops of water.
PYmDL TIL that Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3 was given shorter hair for the convenience of video games: it would have taken more processing power of the PlayStation 2 to animate longer realistic hair and the game designers used the processing power towards increasing monster numbers instead.
b6npZ TIL that the Steak n’ Shake and Western Sizzlin’ restaurant chains are owned by the same company that owns Maxim Magazine.
0wYE5 TIL the song 'That's All Right', Elvis Presley's 1954 break out song, was a song written and originally recorded in 1947 by Arthur Crudup, a Mississippi Delta blues musician, who based the song largely around a verse in a Blind Lemon Jefferson song from 21 years earlier, called 'Black Snake Moan'