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TIL : an experiment showed kids liked food in McD boxes better then the same food in plain boxes

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NX4dP TIL that the song “Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys is actually about their sound engineer, Mario Caldato Jr. He pissed them off and screamed that they needed to finish a song. He would push awful instrumental tracks having Adrock to yell “I can’t stand it!”
9wD8B TIL Tapwater contains 2 mg/L of chlorine to remove germs and bacteria.
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QJLn9 TIL that there is a movement in journalism to move away from “if it bleeds it leads”. In the past, crises and conflicts were reported as-is, but journalists in this movement are also reporting on options, solutions, and ways in which things could and are getting better.