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TIL There is a community in Florida known as Pervert Park, a trailer community strongly concentrated with convicted pedophiles living together upon release from prison

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R5MN9 TIL the chemical reaction that turns food brown when cooking is called the Maillard Reaction and occurs around 140-160°C or 280-330°F
VM5OD TIL that on April 20, 1979, then President Jimmy Carter, was fishing in the middle of a lake in Georgia when a rabbit swam up to his boat and tried to get in it before he scared the rabbit off.
wodn6 TIL When Ottoman envoys, citing a religious custom, declined to remove their turbans when meeting with Vlad (Dracula) the Impaler, Vlad saluted their devotion and decided to strengthen their custom by having three spikes driven through each of their heads, pinning the turbans in place forever.
DrZY TIL Voyager 1, the only man made object to leave the solar system, is carrying, amongst other records, a song called “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground”. This song is available to extraterrestrials, should they ever find it, but not available in India, Canada, or the UK on copyright grounds.
Dkjp TIL If a human dies in outer space their body won’t decompose due to no present oxygen (a key component to decomposition). A corpse could drift in space looking fresh & new for millions of years.