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TIL There is an enzyme that can ‘glue’ scrap meat together and is then sold as prime cuts. It is so convincing even butchers cannot spot the difference.

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g057 TIL that the name of the KA-BAR knife, used by the US Marines and Navy, originated from a trapper’s illegible writing after claiming he used the knife to “kill a bear” in 1923.
7rVEX TIL that Britain went through a Gin craze in the 18th century spearheaded by a Dutchman. We get the word ‘Gin’ from the Dutch word for Juniper and it also spawned the expression ‘Dutch courage’
QAYe TIL that one of the reasons that so many Disney movies feature orphans is Walt Disney’s guilt over his mother’s death from a gas leak in the house he bought her.
AD0dd TIL that Left-brain vs. Right-brain dominance is a myth. Lateralization is unique in every individual and researchers can not find any evidence that one side of the brain or another works by itself for functions of our personalities.
d8REB TIL that the most commonly used sentence in the Harry Potter book series was: “Nothing happened.”; for The Hunger Games series it was: “My name is Katniss Everdeen.”, and for the Twilight series it was: “I sighed.”