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TIL if you bake garlic in the oven for an hour it becomes spreadable like butter

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oBWgo TIL in 1900, when submarines were being introduced to navies, Admiral Arthur Wilson called them underhanded, threatening to hang enemy sub crews as pirates. So, in 1914, when Max Horton commanded Britain's first sub engagement against the Germans, he ordered his crew to fly a Jolly Roger.
nW5mb TIL a chemistry student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinson's syndrome.
MevxV TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't supposed to eat a raw bison liver during the shooting of "The Revenant." The idea was to eat a red, gelatinous pancake, but because it didn't resemble the real thing, the vegetarian decided to eat the raw liver. He later stated that he won't repeat that ever again.
xDDk TIL: Francis from “Malcolm in the Middle,” Hyde from “That 70’s Show” and Tara from “The Walking Dead” are siblings.
Egla7 TIL Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. of the USAF was the first American to die in the Vietnam War, but he was not killed in action, he was murdered in Saigon by another American airman, Edward C. Clarke on June 8, 1956.