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TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it

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BgE9L TIL: The Capacitor Plague, where capacitors had much higher failure rates between 1999 and 2007, as the formula was miscopied when a scientist stole it through corporate espionage in Japan. They returned to China and gave it to their previous employer, who put the faulty formula into production.
wvJW TIL The Woman Who Won the Contest to Name Toronto’s Skydome Still Receives 2 Free Tickets to Every Skydome Event 25 Years Later
VBdW0 TIL that Key West, Florida got hit with two Category 5 hurricanes while MTV was filming The Real World there
kB1g TIL that “Da Vinci’s Rule of the Trees” (“all branches of a tree … put together are equal in thickness to the trunk.”) appears to be true - but “looking at big trees, there’s thousands of branches, and it takes a lot of undergrads to measure it.”
jNxBX TIL the reason that men’s testicles are not internal organs like female ovaries is because sperm cannot survive at our internal body temperature. They require a lower temperature which is why they hang down, but also why the scrotum shrivels up when it is too cold.