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TIL that researchers studying people over 100 found they share a unique set of blood metabolites that may predict longevity — and it’s not diet or exercise that matters most, but how your body processes energy.

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jN5AN TIL that the name for the shape of Pringles is called a ‘Hyperbolic Paraboloid’.
xVJXD TIL Texas Pete is from North Carolina
4B1o TIL that the US Postal Service began home delivery during the Civil War after a postal worker became so torn up by seeing women lined up in the cold to see if a letter had arrived from a son or husband at the front lines that he started delivering mail to homes.
GYEAg TIL "hermetically sealed" is named after Hermes Trismegistus who was into alchemy and supposedly found a way to make a glass tube air tight.
eeOg TIL People with surnames beginning with a letter near the start of the alphabet are more likely to win a Nobel Prize, due to being listed first in scientific papers.