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TIL that combining the piperine in black pepper with curcumin in turmeric enhances curcumin absorption by up to 2000%.

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yQQge TIL that after Germany's openly-gay Foreign Minister called the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko responded that it was "better to be a dictator than gay".
4Ok5 TIL None of the Beach Boys actually surfed except for Dennis who died drowning.
7roXZ TIL that before artificial dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from dead soldiers to make dentures for the rich!
QJKm9 TIL For seven generations, the Crane family have been the sole supplier of the paper that the U.S. Dollar is printed on.
6E47X TIL For the first three years of her life, Candice Bergen had breakfast with Edgar Bergen, her famous ventriloquist father, and Charlie McCarthy, his dummy, and thought Charlie was her brother. Charlie would sit there and talk to her: ‘Drink your milk.’ Her father never spoke directly to her.