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TIL Victoria is the capital of British Columbia

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XJ1R Today I learned that puppy breath smells good because their esophagus is still developing. You smell gas from the fresh food and sweet milk they just ate as opposed to bile or plaque in an adult dog’s breath.
neayd TIL that in 1994, 10 yo Mila Kunis, a Jewish girl who'd moved from Soviet to the US at age 7, auditioned for but failed to get the role of a Russian Jewish girl who moves to America in the film "Make a Wish, Molly".
ep9OL TIL there exists an entire scientific paper on the phase mechanics of cacio e pepe sauce, complete with a scientifically optimized recipe based on the writers’ findings
8gkb TIL Chef Boyardee was a real and talented chef that catered President Wilson’s wedding reception.
JYX9j TIL about zip bombs, large files that get compressed down to kilobytes, in order to render a system useless while unpacking them. A well known example is 42.zip, which uses some of the common methods to create a zip bomb, like repetition and nested .zip files.