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TIL: Wine-tasting is mostly junk science.

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X9Dk TIL that in 1976, after two U.S. Army Officers were killed by North Korean soldiers while tree trimming in the Joint Security Area, America and South Korea responded with “Operation Paul Bunyan” in which they brought a 813 man team, attack helicopters and fighter jets to chop the tree down.
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YrPP TIL that taste is spread throughout the mouth, and the idea that you taste sweet or sour on different areas of the tongue is based on a misinterpretation of a graph reporting one experiment in 1901