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TIL Garlic Bread was popularized as a replacement for Bruschetta since ingredients from Italy like olive oil and certain types of breads were not as available in the USA. Instead French breads like baguettes and butter were used as cheaper substitutes.

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j6PRn TIL Vitamin B12 is very sensitive to acid and would be destroyed by the acid in the stomach, so saliva contains an substance named haptocorrin that has the only purpose to bind to the vitamin to protect it while it passes through the stomach until it can be absorbed in the intestine.
lo87V TIL In China, someone set up a fake bank branch office and it operated "normally" for more than 1 year. All the money that customers put in (~$32m) was gone.
bwK4 TIL that we still do not know how to define death. These “beating heart corpses” can urinate; their bodies rumble, their wounds heal; they can blush and sweat, & can even have babies. Yet, clinically, they are dead. One method to determine death has won a Nobel prize
9YNQ6 TIL Natalie Wood mysteriously died during a boat trip with her husband Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken, and the boat’s captain. Her body was found a mile from the boat with bruises and abrasions. The death was ruled an accidental drowning and the coroner’s office was told not to discuss the case.
MeDeK TIL: In 1911, Canadian prospector William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcrop that eventually yielded 13.5 million ounces of gold.