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Til that some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap and I have that stupid gene

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jx0M TIL Disney originally wanted ABBA to do the music for The Lion King, but ABBA wasn’t available, so they went with Elton John.
168KV TIL the 1900 Summer Olympics had mail coach driving as an equestrian event. The contestants drove mail coaches drawn by four horses each, with the winners determined by a jury.
AmRl TIL One researcher estimates that with current technology it would take 10,000 automated microscopes thirty years to map the connections between every neuron in a human brain, and 100 million terabytes of disk space to store the data.
AWra TIL Arlo Guthrie’s most famous song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, is exactly the length of the suspicious gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes.
kWLe TIL that during the 1904 Olympic Marathon, the winner drank brandy and rat poison, but was refused water. One competitor, wearing trousers and a long sleeve shirt, took a nap during the race, and finished in 4th.