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TIL that there is a desk full of candy in the US Senate
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TIL a Hungarian chemist during WWII hid his Nobel Prize by dissolving it in acid and leaving it on a shelf due to the Nazi ban on its citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize. After the war, he reconstituted the gold from the acid, returned it to Sweden, and got the medal cast again.
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TIL Vitamin B12 is very sensitive to acid and would be destroyed by the acid in the stomach, so saliva contains an substance named haptocorrin that has the only purpose to bind to the vitamin to protect it while it passes through the stomach until it can be absorbed in the intestine.
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[TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress
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TIL that throughout their lifetimes Americans with college degrees earn around 4x more than people with some college experience, 5x more than people with a high school diploma, and 11x more than people with no high school diploma
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TIL that, according to Paul McCartney, after Micheal Jackson bought the rights to The Beatles catalog McCartney asked his friend Michael for a raise in royalties after 30+ years. To which Michael Jackson politely declined and said, "Oh Paul, that's just business."