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DQgxg TIL Nobel Prize of Physics recipient Tsung-Dao Lee was awarded in 1957 and is still alive 65 years later. He was 31 at the time.
nejnr TIL in 2002 when scientists studied a 100-year-old original recipe for veal stock, they identified a fifth taste category that was not sweet, bitter, sour, or salty. Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda identified the savory taste as glutamic acid, which he called "umami," or Japanese for "yummy".
l7DLA TIL in the 1950s Coca-Cola wanted to raise the price of a Coke above 5¢, but their vending machines only took single coins. Not wanting to double it to 10¢, Coke asked the US to mint a 7.5¢ coin, but were denied. So it made every 9th bottle in the machines empty, making the avg effective price 5.6¢.
J1bb4 TIL about the Law of Triviality (aka bike-shedding) where the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of the money] involved.
wodeJ TIL "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in the United States, having aired yearly since 1964.