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TIL Some people dislike coriander and tell it tastes like soap. This is an genetic predisposition.

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WA5B TIL during the shooting of the Killer Rabbit scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the crew dyed the rabbit with what they assumed was washable red dye. When they realized it wasn’t, shooting was halted while the cast frantically tried to clean it before the owner realized what happened.
JYxeV TIL in 1990 Marilyn vos Savant wrote about the "Monty Hall problem" in her column in Parade magazine, correctly answering the statistical brainteaser. Thousands wrote to her to insist she was wrong, including many people with PhDs. Mythbusters even confirmed she was right in a 2011 episode.
XEoZQ TIL in 2013, Coca-Cola cancelled a promotion that paired randomly generated English and French words inside their caps until a lady received one that said "You Retard"
KYjXJ TIL the 3rd highest grossing video game of all time is Dungeon Fighter Online from 2005, an obscure game in the west but overwhelmingly popular in Asia with 850 million players worldwide, earning $22 billion over its lifetime
9lmG TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.