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TIL Brussels sprouts taste less bitter than they did 20 years ago, as a result of selective breeding

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woDnM TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo, where 150 were shot and the remaining 36 were buried up to their necks and eaten alive by red ants, while the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song Those Were the Days
Zdpa TIL the sternocleidomastoid (neck muscle) is often included by creature designers to alien characters to make them seem more attractive and familiar as the muscle is a uniquely mammalian feature. C-3PO has them in the form of pistons on his neck, and so do the good guys in Star Trek.
4j86 TIL: the US had slow average internet speed compared to the rest of the world due to (2) main things: (1) the expense of replacing old wire technologies and (2) their is no law yet stating that ISPs have to update their wiring
OD6a TIL There are 6 mathematical problems still unsolved to this day. A correct solution to any one of the 6 will make you $1,000,000 richer. The 6 problems are often referred to as ‘The Millennium Prize Problems’.
LkrQ TIL that speakers of the tonal language Mandarin are 10x more likely to develop perfect pitch than native English speakers (bottom graph page 5).