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TIL you're supposed to hold the wine glass by the stem so your body heat doesn't change the temperature and flavor of the wine.

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pxvO TIL that when you chew your food, your mouth instinctively molds it into a rounded mass called a “bolus” before you swallow it. Now, every time I eat anything, right before I swallow it, I am weirdly aware that it has been turned into a little ball in my mouth called a bolus.
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