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TIL: memory foam mattress get firmer in cold temperatures

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er9E TIL: That studies of poorly performing medicines often get buried and positive studies are more than twice as likely to be published
nWaoB TIL Alanis Morissette sang backup vocals on DMB Don't drink the water 🤯🤯🤯🤯
m1epy TIL that in 1943, the US government once banned sliced bread in American bakeries and homes to keep the flour costs down and to manage the country's wax supply. The rule was disliked so much no one in the government was willing to confess they had that idea.
5V6eB TIL about “zombie stars,” in which a white dwarf explodes as a weak Type Iax supernova but somehow survives the blast, leaving behind a dim, battered remnant that keeps orbiting through the galaxy.
OGvv7 TIL about Parícutin. A volcano that suddenly appeared in the cornfield of Dionisio Pulido in 1943 and went extinct in 1952