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TIL that drinking caffeine-containing beverages can reduce the harmful effects of sun-exposure, effectively acting like an oral sunscreen

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PWaJ TIL the city of Glasgow spends an estimated £10,000 each year removing traffic cones from the head of the statue of the Duke of Wellington.
4XPmo TIL Fortune cookies, despite being associated with Chinese cuisine in the United States, were invented in Japan and introduced to the US by the Japanese. The cookies are extremely rare in China, where they are seen as symbols of American cuisine
Wxko TIL Turkeys can reproduce asexually
WkAoN TIL When Picasso died at the age of 91, he left more than 45,000 works. In 1980 the Picasso estate was appraised at $250 million, but experts have said the true value was actually in the billions. Picasso did not leave a will, the division of his holdings took six years among seven heirs
1a594 TIL of Jane Elliott, a teacher who divided her class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed. The brown-eyed group were told they were less intelligent, the blue-eyed superior, the brown-eyed accepted their lower position and the blue-eyed became more arrogant