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TIL Scientists Can “Unboil” an Egg

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kOjKE TIL The current British dynasty is only known as the House of Windsor because they changed their original German name during World War I to sound more British.
NEoe TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
M7yXm TIL The Space Shuttle was designed in the hopes that spacefaring would become cheap, reliable and everyday. Instead, maintaining the fleet took months of arduous technical work and instead of flying once a week, the shuttle made on average fewer than five flights a year
D19Mg TIL You could have lasting brain injury without any obvious symptoms
5V6Rn TIL that "old person smell" is caused by a chemical compound called Nonenal that naturally starts forming on human skin around age 40. Because the compound is not water-soluble, it cannot be washed away with normal soap.