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TIL Grimace from McDonald's is an enormous taste bud

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W7rWA TIL Hendiadys is a figure of speech, typically where a noun and adjective pair are replaced with two nouns joined by a conjunction. Shakespeare was fond of using hendiadys in his plays, for instance, in Macbeth: 'sound and fury' instead of 'furious sound'.
Lk9Rv TIL that Schrödinger's cat paradox was originally intended to ridicule quantum superposition. Schrödinger was proven incorrect and his thought experiment is now used to explain superposition rather than criticise it.
VMxgB TIL polar bears aren’t white. But Each hair is a clear hollow tube, which makes them look white
DZ1g TIL that President Jimmy Carter’s debate prep notes were obtained by the Reagan campaign leading up to the 1980 presidential debate and was later investigated by the FBI and Congress.
E14VP TIL that the University of Oregon's "O" hand sign is equivalent in American Sign Language to screaming "Vagina"