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TIL: A 2020 study revealed that one's taste is connected with their ethnicity and gender. Asians experience taste more intensely due to being more likely to be "supertasters" having the compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) and being thermal tasters. Caucasians are much less sensitive in comparison.

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x6Lrg TIL that former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson attended high school with singer Janis Joplin in Texas. There, he and other jocks at the school relentlessly bullied Janis by groping her and spreading rumors around school that she’d slept with their friends because she "looked and acted weird."
lYGV TIL that Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers was not only Nihilist # 2 in The Big Lebowski, he was also Marty McFly’s rival Needles in Back to the Future Part II and III.
0ww6y TIL California (population 39 million) has a larger economy than France (66mil), India (1.3bil), Italy, Brazil, Canada, South Korea, Russia, and Australia.
8XjZ TIL Gaius gracchus, the ancient roman politician, had a bounty put on his head to the price of the head’s weight in gold. Although the head was delivered, the prize was never paid, as it was discovered that Gaius’ captor had emptied out his brain and replaced it with molten lead.
woON6 TIL - The average person unknowingly eats a surprisingly high number of bugs each year! According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the average person consumes up to one and a half pounds of insects annually through fruits and vegetables. That amounts to about 440 to 660 bugs per year!