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TIL that Winston Churchill was the 1953 recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature

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OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.
doM9 TIL that intelligent people tend to be messy, stay awake longer, and swear more
1rxO TIL in the 2005 film ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the chocolate river was made of actual chocolate instead of CGI. It was made of about 192,000 gallons of chocolate.
oJmr TIL - The word “Astronaut” literally means “Star sailor” The term derives from the Greek words ástron, meaning “star”, and nautes, meaning “sailor”.
GZxN TIL: An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower