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TIL Eating overcooked/burnt food doesn't have an established/quantitative link to increased cancer risk, contrary to what many of us have heard, since childhood. On the contrary, processed foods like bacon or salami increase the risk, regardless of how they're cooked

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k7vd TIL It’s possible to trap a laser’s beam inside a stream of water, which will result in the beam being guided by the stream.
Ne46 TIL Your brain accounts for only 2 percent of your body weight but consumes roughly 20 percent of your calorie intake. Average newborn’s brain uses close to 75 percent of available energy.
OGyK4 TIL that a pub in London was illegally demolished just days before it was to be listed as an historic site. They developer was forced to rebuild it brick by brick to its original state.
VM9EQ TIL the 1966 Rolling Stones song "Mother's Little Helper" was written about the hypocrisy of middle-age housewives, who often criticized the spread of drugs, but often popped prescribed pills like valium to get through the day.
66nW TIL that bared breasts were a sign of mourning in ancient Egypt and Greece.