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TIL Scientists Can “Unboil” an Egg

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X0X1k TIL that teeth grinding in kids can be tied to them having intenstinal worms.
19Md TIL in the UK the gov’t funds a service which you can notify about a person sleeping rough during winter, and they will find that person and arrange a bed for the night.
PY9E TIL that Muhammad wrote a document asking his followers to respect and protect Christians.
d7kQ TIL that from 2000-2001 in California, traders at the now defunct company, Enron, manipulated the price of energy by shutting down power grids causing rolling blackouts. These blackouts would increase demand for energy and thus cause the price to surge sometimes 20x above it’s normal value.
p8JEp TIL of the 'Flogsta Scream'. Every evening at 10pm students in the town of Uppsala, Sweden, let out a collective scream as a response to the stress of university life.