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TIL that scientifically chicken noodle soup helps relieve symptoms of the common cold.

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4Xp0b TIL that Richard Pryor opened the Academy Awards way back in 1977 with a monologue about black performers never getting nominated.
b9jG9 TIL To call someone a goat (козёл) in Russia is one of the worst insults. It has a criminal connotation and people got harmed and even killed over it.
epWxn TIL of Sinis, a mythological bandit slain by Theseus. Sinis would fool his victims by asking for their help in bending pine-trees to the ground, and then release the tree, catapulted the victim into the air
yQbnM TIL that apiarists, geneticists, and bee breeding engineers at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have developed a new bee breed that is supposed to have beneficial traits, including strength and mite resistance, to try and cure colony collapse disorder and save the bees. #savethebees
WMxN TIL, when adjusted for inflation, Gone With The Wind grossed $$4,401,358,554.94 making it the highest grossing movie of all time.