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TIL that milk goes so well with cookies because milk has the sixth basic taste called "oleogustus", or fat taste, which changes the overall sensory profile of sweet desserts.

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L4JP TIL that in 1955 for every 100,000 US citizens there was 340 psychiatric hospital beds. In 2005 that number had diminished to 17 per 100,000.
kpnB TIL that Nguyen Cao Ty, who served as President and Vice President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam war, emigrated to the Unites States and ran a liquor store for several years after the fall of Saigon.
8NJX TIL An 8 foot tall Lego man named “Ego Leonard”, has mysteriously been found washing up on beaches worldwide since 2007. Ego Leonard always bears the phrase “No Real Than You Are” on his chest.
ANLMo TIL that 1kg of uranium-235 used in nuclear fission creates the same energy as 2.7 million kg of coal
wLyD6 TIL Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity