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TIL that cooling pasta for 24 hours reduces calories and insulin response while also turning into a prebiotic. These positive effects only intensify if you re-heat it.

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rNYVW TIL that the Large Hadron Collider had so many unusual failures that noted physicists submitted papers with the notion that its operation is so abhorrent that it was being sabotaged....by someone from the future.
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ADJYl TIL that the Australian constitution has has a subsection (called the Race Power) dedicated to allowing the legislative to make law only affecting a specific race of people.