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TIL Your taste buds have a lifespan 👅 Each of your taste buds lives for about 10 days

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W8pA TIL that after four years of eating Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries, a woman sued the distributor of Cap'n Crunch because she discovered that she was eating brightly-colored cereal balls, and that “Crunchberries” aren’t a real fruit like she had thought.
R7pa6 TIL that four months after actress Brittany Murphy unexpectedly died at the age of 32 in her L.A. home of pneumonia and severe anemia, her widow Simon Monjack was found dead in the same home of pneumonia and severe anemia.
LQ5gv TIL that most of the trains in the North Korean capital Pyongyang are actually reused trains from the Berlin metro.
NXrgN TIL that the inverted Latin cross often used today as an anti-Christian symbol originated from the death of Saint Peter, who, when sentenced to death, requested to be crucified upside-down as he believed that he was unworthy of being killed in the same way as Jesus Christ.
6ELAJ TIL of super volcanos, including the one in Yosemite National Park. These types are different from regular volcanos because they don’t have the typical steep sides and are instead depressions in the ground. They are thousands of times larger than any other volcanic eruption.